It is 1970 in the suburbs of north London and, from the untidy comfort of her crowded house, Colette Jones is watching her older brother go to pieces, drinking himself into... more
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family is in danger of turning to alcohol. Her oldest son has thrown away a promising musical career for a job behind the counter in a builders' merchants and his dri...
Advantages: Quite heavy hardback edition - would make good door stop Disadvantages: Truly awful rubbish
There really are very few books I have been unable to finish. I like to think this is because I am a) pretty stubborn and won't give up on something once I've started, and b) pretty damn good at choosing books. I love books. Buying them, reading them, and lining my home with them. So it saddens me when I come across a bad one. Especially when that bad one has had good reviews - it makes me just plain cross. This particular one was a Booker shortlister ... ...of my car since my holiday in Wales last July. Less than a third of the way in I had no desire to finish reading it, and even less of a desire to take it indoors and find it a shelf space; it deserved to stay out in the cold. 'I'll go to bed at noon' was the recipient of many favourable reviews, and supposedly a follow-up to a previous novel by the same author. I found very little in it to like, storywise, or in the writing. Set in the London of ...
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Advantages: Easy to read, beautifully written, good chapter length Disadvantages: None
..., scandal and intrigue and of course the gay lifestyle of certain of his characters is a central theme.
He then wrote The Folding Star in 1994. This was short listed for the Man Booker Prize and also won another literary award the James Tait Black Memorial.
The Spell, was written in 1998.
Then in 2004 The Line of Beauty won the Man Booker prize beating: ( Taken from The Man Booker Prize website)
Achmat Dangor -Bitter Fruit
Atlantic Books
Sarah Hall -The Electric Michelangelo
Faber & Faber
David Mitchell -Cloud Atlas
Sceptre
Colm Tóibín -The Master
Picador
GerardWoodward -I'llgo to Bed at Noon
Chatto & Windus
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If you dont have time to read any further then the main cut and thrust of The Line of Beauty is in the early 1980s a young gay man, Nick Guest, who has just left...
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It is 1970 in the suburbs of north London and, from the untidy comfort of her crowded house, Colette Jones is watching her older brother go to pieces, drinking himself into oblivion on home-made wine. Colette knows the solace a drink can provide, being partial to an evening at the Red Lion herself. But soon she finds she cannot afford to ignore the destructive effect the alcohol is having on her family and with gritted teeth Colette is forced to exile the alcoholic son she loves so much from the house. But this act takes its toll and, just as she can't resist a drink, so she can't resist allowing Janus back into her life - with heartbreaking consequences for everyone. Gerard Woodward's magnificent second novel continues the story of the Joneses, so memorably introduced in "August". By way of an odyssey through the pubs, parks and shopping parades of suburban London, it lurches from farce to tragedy as the members of one unforgettable family build and destroy their lives. From the PublisherSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2004'The narrative is mind-bogglingly crisp, resourceful and hilarious in its description of the myriad ways in which people drink-a remarkable book' Sunday Times See all Product Description
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