Box Hill [electronic resource] : A Story of Low Self-esteem
Mars-Jones, Adam2020
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On the Sunday of his eighteenth birthday, in 1975, Colin takes a walk on Box Hill, a biker hang-out. There he accidentally trips over Ray, a biker napping under a tree – and that's where it all starts. This transgressive, darkly affecting love story between men, winner of the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize, is a stunning novel of desire and domination by one of Britain's most accomplished writers.
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Box Hill [electronic resource] : A Story of Low Self-esteem / Adam Mars-Jones
Author:
Mars-Jones, Adam, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2020
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Adam Mars-Jones' first collection of stories, Lantern Lecture , won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1982, and he appeared on Granta 's Best of Young British Novelists lists in 1983 and 1993. His debut novel, The Waters of Thirst , was published in 1993 by Faber & Faber. It was followed by Pilcrow (2008) and Cedilla (2011), which form the first two parts of a semiinfinite novel series. His essay Noriko Smiling (Notting Hill Editions, 2011) is a book-length study of a classic of Japanese cinema, Yasujiro Ozu's Late Spring . His memoir Kid Gloves was published by Particular Books in 2015. He writes book reviews for the LRB and film reviews for the TLS.
ISBN:
9781913097240
Language:
English
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2810829
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