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Mortality - Nicholas Royle

Mortality

By: Nicholas Royle

Paperback | 1 February 2007 | Edition Number 1

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An amateur goalkeeper is frozen solid in a moment of ecstasy as he makes his perfect save. A young man finds himself drawn into the auto-erotic asphyxiation fantasies of his deceased uncle. Two men hunt the elusive Scottish wildcat, one of them a cuckold, the other his cuckolder. A photographer navigates the rapids of London s fashion-media elite and struggles to remain afloat in a sea of drugs. From Amsterdam to deepest Devon, from Naples to New York, and from all corners of London to Manchester s Northern Quarter, these stories feature a parade of mad women, male neurotics, lovesick morticians, frustrated pizza waiters and psychotic serial killers. Like a funnier Ian McEwan or a kinder Will Self, Nicholas Royle s tales are skewed vignettes of the way we live now.
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?Menacing and uncanny? effortlessly shifting persona and setting? enigmatic and resonant? Guardian ?Something unexpected, sense of what it is to be human and fallible and to be in constant emotional pain. Nicholas Royle is so accomplished a novelist of the uncanny and messed-up? The stories are best read one at a time (because they are disturbing). At the same time, they cohere beautifully; they share a tone, a way of seeing? Time Out ?Part Raymond Chandler, more Geoff Dyer, the 20 tales tackle life and death (mostly death) in a neo-noir spectrum of page-turning suspense. Hardboiled sensibilities and several self-aware homages to genre, aptly showcase Royle?s maudlin wit? Dazed & Confused ?Just beautiful? Independent

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