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Item Details
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CLEAR WATER
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| By: |
Will Ashon |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0571231012 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571231010 |
| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
1 June, 2006 |
| Edition: |
Main |
| Pages: |
336 |
| Description: |
King James, an ex-conchie bashing Special Services hardnut, and Binary Bob, his young companion; Peter Jones, a disaffected lifestyle journalist, and Mandy, the young shop assistant befriended by Peter. And then there's Jimmy Patel, a retired professional spin-bowler turned melancholic-alcoholic. This work binds these five characters together. |
| Synopsis: |
Set in and around Clearwater, a vast, subterranean shopping centre lying on the edge of the Thames estuary in Kent, Will Ashon's spectacular debut novel constructs a story of intrigue, action and high entertainment around six principal figures. King James of Vernaland is an ex-secret service hardnut with a God complex, Binary Robert, his young companion with a genius for computer-hacking and data-harvesting; Peter Jones is a disaffected lifestyle journalist desperate to rescue his career with a scoop on the invisible workings of the Clearwater complex, and Mandy, the young shop assistant he befriends in his attempts to penetrate the vast edifice of consumerism. And then there's Jimmy Patel, a retired professional spin-bowler turned melancholic-alcoholic, about to be fingered himself for professional indiscretions. It's just not cricket. CLEAR WATER binds these five together along with the unforgettable Verna Landor - a wartime 'entertainer' of dubious stripe and King James' muse - and builds an extraordinary narrative of espionage, desire and dysfunction to a thrilling denouement.An intricately structured, deadpan exposition of contemporary life, CLEAR WATER announces the arrival of a prodigious new talent. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Faber & Faber |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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