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RUPERT SHELDRAKE
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LITERARY TH RILLER The Book Of Revelation
Rupert Thomson (Bloomsbury £14.99) at i it ~k
On the pretty daylight streets of Amsterdam, a famous dancer is kidnapped by a cloaked trio. After enduring eighteen days of sexual assault and humiliation, release comes unexpectedly. Yet another twist is that the victim is male and the kidnappers female.
Divided into two halves — the days of abuse and the five years after — The Book Of Revelation is a sobering first person account of a man’s attempt to live on after such an ordeal. Rupert Thomson skilfully examines masculinity, sexuality and the self through a victim whose first name we never discover - a technique which distances the reader (and the character) from his physical body
Not only a stylish and disturbing take on the commonly held ideas of what is male and female sexuality, it is a powerful tracking of a man’s attempt to reconcile his self-identity with an experience from which he cannot escape. (SB)
COMMUNITY SAGA Noah, Noah Paul Wilson (Granta £15.99) inhk
Paul Wilson's fourth novel is a cri de coeur - albeit a quiet one — on behalf of the kind of people who don't usually make it into novels. Their
problems are pedestrian, their lives drab. Wilson's gentle, generous project is to reveal the private dreams and desires that brighten apparently undistinguished lives.
The characters congregate at a community centre run by timid Noah Brindle. As they increasingly come to depend upon him, Noah himself escapes into fantasies built around the life of enigmatic local philanthropist Mr George. Two lives, past and present, run parallel as Noah faces new challenges with a strength inherited from his predecessor.
Tender and well-meaning though this is, as literature it's patchy. When Wilson‘s style equals his ambition, his prose shimmers with perfectly-judged metaphors and sensitive characterisation; however, the rareness of such moments means that this remains more of a good book than a good book. (HM)
BIOGRAPHICAL FICTION Trumpet Jackie Kay(Picador £6.99) it i it * i:
Kay's novel tells not so much the story of jazz trumpeter loss Moody but more the story around him. Despite being married and bringing up a son, after his death, Moody is revealed to be a woman.
The tale is told from a variety of viewpoints. We hear from the grieving, shell-shocked wife who kept her husband’s secret with her, and their adopted son Colman, unable to cope
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