Venus as a Boy

ISBN-13: 9780747569053 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 164 str.

Luke Sutherland

Opis

Drinking late one night in an East End club, a writer is approached by Pascal, the friend of a man named Desiree who claims he knows the writer from growing up in Orkney - and that he's dying and wants him to write his story. The writer ignores him. But a month later, a package arrives containing, among discs, sunglasses and other trinkets, a photograph of the writer aged eight. So he listens to the discs and emerges amazed and shaken. He then transcribes this heartbreaking story which traces Desiree's life as a bullied youth in South Ronaldsay to the streets of Soho where he reduces his grateful clients to tears with his astonishing gift of sex...

Recenzje

'From the start it glistens with teasing self-confidence, spinning a yarn that has you intrigued ... you end up hooked on the voice which leaves you stunned' Tom Adair, Scotsman

O autorze

Sutherland, LukeLuke Sutherland is a writer and musician. He grew up in the Orkneys and now lives in London. He is the author of two other novels, Jelly Roll, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award, and Sweetmeat.