The Deconstruction of Professor Thrub - Softcover

Johnston, D.D

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0956336469 ISBN 13: 9780956336460

Verlag: Barbican Press, 2024

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The Deconstruction of Professor Thrub is like a dopamine-enhanced Porterhouse Blue. As a PhD student grapples with the issues of free will and determinism refracted through the life of a Spanish civil war veteran, Johnston offers us a clanging charivari of clinical administrators, angry old academics and randy students. Among this din, Johnston takes us on quite an emotional and intellectual journey. Johnston's raw and unexpurgated humour, which gave his characters in peave, Love and Petrol Bombs such humanity, returns as coarse as ever. .. a determinedly extraordinary book. --Paul Simon - The Morning Star

An ambitious, erudite work with a profound interest in the world as we find it ...infused with a conviction of what the novel should be, and what it can achieve. --Christopher Burns - The Warwick Review

A historical epic, a story about love, revolution and the university, with echoes of Luther Blissett's Q and a lot of laughs, this is a great book which entertains, confuses and educates in equal measure. You should read it! --Steven Johns - Libcom.org

Reseña del editor:

Freewill, love, death, revolution - a student has the themes for his creative writing PhD. He pins them to Elsie Stewart and embarks on her biography. Love takes Elsie to the Spanish Civil War while the story hurtles off into the maelstrom of Ukrainian twentieth century history. Can Professor Thrub's post-structural guidance haul the project back on track? Will love and surgery redeem our student's struggles for a good life, significance and a doctorate? This biting comedy of love, desperation and existence offers a thrilling ride into the world of a major new writer. Praise for earlier D.D.Johnston: The Sunday Herald: 'Funny as all hell. And it's got morally ambiguous people in it.' The Morning Star: 'A very urgent relevance now and for the immediate future.'

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• Verlag: Barbican Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• ISBN 10: 0956336469
• ISBN 13: 9780956336460
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 344