Monument rock novel

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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days The Age of Anxiety is a great rock novel, but that is one of the less important things about it. The narrator is a brilliant creation - cultured, witty and unreliable. The novel captures the craziness of the music business and displays Pete Townshend's sly sense of humour and sharp ear for dialogue. First conceived as an opera, The Age of Anxiety deals with mythic and operatic themes including a maze, divine madness and long-lost children. Hallucinations and soundscapes haunt this novel, which on one level is an extended meditation on manic genius and the dark art of creativity. Features Summary The debut novel by Pete Townshend, one of the world's greatest rock stars Author Pete Townshend Publisher Coronet Books Release date 20191030 Pages 320 ISBN 1-4736-2293-X ISBN 13 978-1-4736-2293-7

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days The No. 1 New York Times Bestseller Jess Walter's Beautiful Ruins is a gorgeous, glamorous novel set in 1960s Italy and a modern Hollywood studio. The story begins in 1962. Somewhere on a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and views an apparition: a beautiful woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an American starlet, he soon learns, and she is dying. And the story begins again today, half a world away in Hollywood, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot searching for the woman he last saw at his hotel fifty years before. Gloriously inventive, funny, tender and constantly surprising, Beautiful Ruins is a novel full of fabulous and yet very flawed people, all of them striving towards another sort of life, a future that is both delightful and yet, tantalizingly, seems just out of reach. 'Magic...A monument to crazy love with a deeply romantic heart' New York Times 'A novel shot in sparkly Technicolor' Booklist 'Hilarious and compelling' Esquire 'Beautiful Ruins is a novel unlike any other you're likely to read this year' Nick Hornby, The Believer Features Summary Somewhere on a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and views an apparition: a beautiful woman... Author Jess Walter Publisher Penguin Books Release date 20130520 Pages 337 ISBN 0-670-92265-X ISBN 13 978-0-670-92265-9

(This title is available on demand: expected date of dispatch will be 4-7 working days once ordered) Gods Without Men is Hari Kunzru's epic novel of intertwined lives and a vast expanse of American desert. In the Californian desert...A four-year-old boy goes missing. A British rock star goes quietly mad. An alien-worshipping cult is born. An Iraqi teenager takes part in a war game. In a remote town, near a rock formation known as The Pinnacles, lives intertwine, stories echo, and the universal search for meaning and connection continues. "Kunzru's great American novel". (Independent). "Readers speak of it in hushed tones as conveying the secrets of the universe". (Newsday). "Extraordinary, smart, innovative, a revelation. Has the counterculture feel of a late-1960s US campus hit - something by Vonnegut or Pynchon or Wolfe. Genuinely interesting and exhilarating. Extremely enjoyable". (Guardian). "Astonishing, mind-blowing. One of the most original novels I've read in years". (Counterpunch). "One of the most socially observant and skilful novelists around. Consistently gripping and entertaining". (Literary Review). "A great sprawling narrative, as vast as the canvas on which it is written". (Washington Post). "Reverberates long after you finish reading it". (New Yorker). Hari Kunzru is the author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions and Gods Without Men, and the story collection Noise. He lives in New York. Format:Paperback Pages:400

 Paperback Very good condition. Has slight lean to it. From #1  New York Times  bestselling author George R. R. Martin comes the ultimate novel of revolution, rock ’n’ roll, and apocalyptic murder—a stunning work of fiction that portrays not just the end of an era, but the end of the world as we know it.     Onetime underground journalist Sandy Blair has come a long way from his radical roots in the ’60s—until something unexpectedly draws him back: the bizarre and brutal murder of a rock promoter who made millions with a band called the Nazgûl. Now, as Sandy sets out to investigate the crime, he finds himself drawn back into his own past—a magical mystery tour of the pent-up passions of his generation. For a new messiah has resurrected the Nazgûl and the mad new rhythm may be more than anyone bargained for—a requiem of demonism, mind control, and death, whose apocalyptic tune only Sandy may be able to change in time... before everyone follows the beat.

Paperback. English. Penguin. 1998. In good condition. Self - made millionaire Victor wants to leave his mark before he dies. He has no family, no lover, so on his 80th birthday he decides to create a lasting monument in the city that made his fortune. He will destroy the old market - place where he grew up amongst the street traders and beggars, and rebuild it in the shape of Arcadia: a modern utopia of glass and greenery at the heart of the metropolis. 'The tallest buildings throw the longest shadows - thus great men make their mark,' Victor's architect tells him. Yet Arcadia's shadow falls more darkly than those around him could imagine. Another brilliant, inventive and engrossing novel from the masterful Jim Crace.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days 1984 isn't just a novel; it's a key to understanding the modern world. George Orwell's final work is a treasure chest of ideas and memes - Big Brother, the Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, 2+2=5 - that gain potency with every year. Particularly in 2016, when the election of Donald Trump made it a bestseller (`Ministry of Alternative Facts', anyone?). Its influence has morphed endlessly into novels (The Handmaid's Tale), films (Brazil), television shows (V for Vendetta), rock albums (Diamond Dogs), commercials (Apple), even reality TV (Big Brother). The Ministry of Truth by Dorian Lynskey is the first book that fully examines the epochal and cultural event that is 1984 in all its aspects: its roots in the utopian and dystopian literature that preceded it; the personal experiences in wartime Britain that Orwell drew on as he struggled to finish his masterpiece in his dying days; and the political and cultural phenomena that the novel ignited at once upon publication and that far from subsiding, have only grown over the decades. It explains how fiction history informs fiction and how fiction explains history. Features Summary In The Ministry of Truth, Dorian Lynskey charts the life of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: one of the most influential books of the 20th Century... Author Dorian Lynskey Publisher Picador Release date 20190528 Pages 368 ISBN 1-5098-9073-4 ISBN 13 978-1-5098-9073-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 15 working days Ellis is losing track of time...Following her mother's marriage to a famous rock star, Ellis moves to a crumbling old mansion in the wilds of Scotland. Far away from her friends and familiarity, she finds waves of anxiety rolling in and threatening to capsize her. But when she finds herself whisked back to the world of 1912 where she meets lonely servant girl Flora, Ellis finally feels like she's home. But living in the past might not be as perfect as it seems...and is there more to hope for in the present than she first thought? A stunning new novel from much-loved author Karen McCombie, The Whispers of Wilderwood Hall will take you from the heart of the highlands to the top deck of the Titanic. Features Summary Ellis suddenly finds herself in Wilderwood Hall, a dilapidated Victorian manor house in the wilds of Scotland. It's a house with a peculiar past - which Ellis begins to see... Author Karen McCombie Publisher Scholastic Press Release date 20160602 Pages 272 ISBN 1-4071-6409-0 ISBN 13 978-1-4071-6409-0

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days In her second novel, Luciana is off to youth astronaut training camp! She hopes to be chosen to dive to an underwater habitat where real astronauts train for life in space. But when Luci accuses her diving partner of sabotage, no one believes her and her chances of making the diving team sink fast. Things hit rock bottom when Luci has an underwater crisis. Suddenly, making the dive team isn't her biggest worry. She'll have to conquer her fears if she ever wants to make it to Mars. If she can't, will she have to kiss her dreams of becoming an astronaut goodbye? Features Summary American Girl's 2018 Girl of the Year, Luciana, continues her quest Author Erin Teagan Publisher Scholastic US Release date 20180104 Pages 176 ISBN 1-338-18650-7 ISBN 13 978-1-338-18650-5