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Tableaux: Scenes from the Decade of Excess (Stories & Scenes) - Hardcover

Jay, Dominic

 
9781911422402: Tableaux: Scenes from the Decade of Excess (Stories & Scenes)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1911422405 ISBN 13: 9781911422402
Verlag: Circa Press, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

“Reading Tableaux was like revisiting old haunts, or places I would have liked to have haunted. It sparked visceral sense memories and made me nostalgic. And the ending …” – Midori

It is 1984, the year of Ronald Reagan’s re-election and the Brighton bomb; one can sense revolution in the air. Oliver Woolf is a thirty-something journalist, well-connected socially, and an instinctual conservative, whose comfortable routine is upset by a chance encounter in the rain. The girl in the rain is Candy, who is not what she first seems. Over the summer, Oliver and Candy form an unlikely friendship, and when she stops calling on him, he sets out to find her. His search leads him through a labyrinthine underworld that extends from London to Manhattan. Along the way, he meets someone who will change his life forever. A late-twentieth century Rake’s Progress, Oliver’s journey confronts issues that are still largely taboo. Illustrated with photographs by Steve Diet Goedde, Tableaux combines art and storytelling in a new hybrid form.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Dominic Jay is a former arts journalist. His professional life gave him privileged access to people and places that are usually off limits. The material for this, his first novel, was collected over many years. Many of the scenes and characters are drawn from life. As he says, 'all writers are voyeurs'.

Dominic Jay is a former arts journalist. His professional life gave him privileged access to people and places that are usually off limits. The material for this, his first novel, was collected over many years. Many of the scenes and characters are drawn from life. As he says, 'all writers are voyeurs'.

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“Reading Tableaux was like revisiting old haunts, or places I would have liked to have haunted. It sparked visceral sense memories and made me nostalgic. And the ending …” – Midori

It is 1984, the year of Ronald Reagan’s re-election and the Brighton bomb; one can sense revolution in the air. Oliver Woolf is a thirty-something journalist, well-connected socially, and an instinctual conservative, whose comfortable routine is upset by a chance encounter in the rain. The girl in the rain is Candy, who is not what she first seems. Over the summer, Oliver and Candy form an unlikely friendship, and when she stops calling on him, he sets out to find her. His search leads him through a labyrinthine underworld that extends from London to Manhattan. Along the way, he meets someone who will change his life forever. A late-twentieth century Rake’s Progress, Oliver’s journey confronts issues that are still largely taboo. Illustrated with photographs by Steve Diet Goedde, Tableaux combines art and storytelling in a new hybrid form.

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Verlag
Circa Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1911422405
ISBN 13 
9781911422402
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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