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NEW 2020 Modern fiction, THE LAST GOOD MAN THOMAS McMullan
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BRAND NEW BOOK, first published in 2020
For all the $10 new books, buy 2 for $15, 3 for $20.
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Fiction > Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Pages: 309
'A Scarlet Letter for our times' Margaret Atwood 'An extraordinary and disquieting work of imagination, and as original as any novel I've read in recent memory' Rob Doyle
Duncan Peck has travelled alone to Dartmoor in search of his cousin. He has come from the city, where the fires are always burning.
In his cousin's village, Peck finds a place with tea rooms and barley fields, a church and a schoolhouse. Out here, the people live an honest life – and if there's any trouble, they have a way to settle it. They sit in the shadow of a vast wall, inscribed with strange messages. Anyone can write on the wall, anonymously, about their neighbours, about any wrongdoing that might hurt the community. Then comes the reckoning.
The stranger from the city causes a stir. He has not been there long before the village wakes up to the most unspeakable accusation; sentences daubed on the wall that will detonate the darkest of secrets.
A troubling, uncanny book about fear and atonement, responsibility and justice, and the violence of writing in public spaces, The Last Good Man dares to ask: what hope can we place in words once extinction is in the air?
About the Author
Thomas McMullan is a writer, critic and journalist whose work has appeared in publications including the Guardian, Observer, Times Literary Supplement, Frieze and BBC News, and has been published in 3:AM Magazine, Lighthouse and Best British Short Stories. He has worked with visual artists, game studios and theatre companies in London, Amsterdam, Beijing and Los Angeles. He lives in London.
Industry Reviews
“A brilliantly unsettling parable about how we police our societies through violence, language and shame”
independent.co.uk
“A clean, crackling novel ... McMullan updates Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter to today's sanctimonious climate ... An arresting debut about medieval justice that has plenty to say about the dangers of moral puritanism”
Metro
BRAND NEW BOOK, first published in 2020
For all the $10 new books, buy 2 for $15, 3 for $20.
Buy it for yourself or as a birthday / Christmas gift for you family and friends.
Fiction > Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Pages: 309
'A Scarlet Letter for our times' Margaret Atwood 'An extraordinary and disquieting work of imagination, and as original as any novel I've read in recent memory' Rob Doyle
Duncan Peck has travelled alone to Dartmoor in search of his cousin. He has come from the city, where the fires are always burning.
In his cousin's village, Peck finds a place with tea rooms and barley fields, a church and a schoolhouse. Out here, the people live an honest life – and if there's any trouble, they have a way to settle it. They sit in the shadow of a vast wall, inscribed with strange messages. Anyone can write on the wall, anonymously, about their neighbours, about any wrongdoing that might hurt the community. Then comes the reckoning.
The stranger from the city causes a stir. He has not been there long before the village wakes up to the most unspeakable accusation; sentences daubed on the wall that will detonate the darkest of secrets.
A troubling, uncanny book about fear and atonement, responsibility and justice, and the violence of writing in public spaces, The Last Good Man dares to ask: what hope can we place in words once extinction is in the air?
About the Author
Thomas McMullan is a writer, critic and journalist whose work has appeared in publications including the Guardian, Observer, Times Literary Supplement, Frieze and BBC News, and has been published in 3:AM Magazine, Lighthouse and Best British Short Stories. He has worked with visual artists, game studios and theatre companies in London, Amsterdam, Beijing and Los Angeles. He lives in London.
Industry Reviews
“A brilliantly unsettling parable about how we police our societies through violence, language and shame”
independent.co.uk
“A clean, crackling novel ... McMullan updates Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter to today's sanctimonious climate ... An arresting debut about medieval justice that has plenty to say about the dangers of moral puritanism”
Metro
- Date Listed:07/09/2021
- Last Edited:07/09/2021
- Condition:New
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