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Sanderson’s Isle
James Clarke
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Beschreibung
'[An] engaging, inventive literary noir ... full of neat twists and potent writing' Independent Book of the Month
'A feisty, subversive countervision of England's lost futures and buried longings' Rob Doyle, author of Threshold
A Burley Fisher Book of the Year 2023
1969. Thomas Speake comes to London to look for his father but finds Sanderson instead, a larger-than-life TV presenter who hosts 'midweek madness' parties where the punch is spiked with acid. There Speake meets Marnie and promises to help her find her adoptive child, who has been taken by her birth mother to live off-grid in a hippie commune in the Lake District.
Forced to lie low after a violent accident, Speake joins Sanderson on a tour of the Lake District, where he's researching a book to accompany his popular TV series, Sanderson's Isle. Fascinated by local rumours about the hippies, Sanderson joins the search for their whereabouts. Amid the fierce beauty of the mountains, the cult is forming the kind of community that Speake - a drifter who belongs nowhere - is desperate to find but has been sent to betray.
This is the follow up to James Clarke's Betty Trask Prize-winning debut novel. It is filled with gorgeous nature writing of the urban and the rural, and its portrayal of the moment when British society was unsettled and transformed by the counterculture of the 1960s is visionary and electrifying.
'Psychedelic 1960s London, TV personalities, counterculture in the Lake District, a lost child! Wasn't I always going to read this book? Magnificent' Wendy Erskine, author of Dance Move
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A magic portrayal of life in the peripheries
Off-kilter, eerie, defiantly awkward: there'
'A feisty, subversive countervision of England's lost futures and buried longings'
His prose is generous and electrifying, unjudgemental and assured. A brilliant new talent
<b>Praise for James Clarke</b>
Psychedelic 1960s London, TV personalities, counterculture in the Lake District, a lost child! Wasn'
What a narrator. How Speake speaks. How he bends your ear, and your heart. <i>Sanderson's Isle</i> sometimes reads like a lost John Braine or David Storey novel. There's even a touch of Ted Lewis in its elemental fatalism. It'
Intriguing and unsettling ... [Clarke] has a terrific gift for the uncomfortable and threatening scene as the novel cartwheels its way to a conclusion both spectacular and sordid
Clarke writes with relish ... a ferocious portrait of a time and place
[An] engaging, inventive literary noir ... full of neat twists and potent writing
Much literary fiction of recent years has erred towards minimalism: little action, few characters, story replaced by mood, dialogue replaced by thought. Manchester-born James Clarke's third novel, <i>Sanderson's Isle</i>, is a raucous, Technicolor scream against this trend ... If it feels gratuitous, that's only because of the lethargic narratives we'
<i>Sanderson's Isle</i> is a hugely enjoyable sex and drug fuelled human drama, set against the gritty backdrops of 1960's London and the Lake District. Clarke'
Gorgeous, luxurious language propels a motley crew of characters as they beg, borrow, beat and maneuver their ways up and down the country, through TV shows, derelict stations, weird communes, lockhouses and forests. Extraordinarily mapped and cinematic in its sense of place, character and time through a powerful narrative voice, this is a portrait of riotous, joyful, mystical, horrible and high little Englanders that I loved.
Clarke is particularly good at the landscapes that are one of the main pleasures of the narrative, from scraggy east London to the vividness of the Lake District
Freewheeling, vivid, and intensely imagined, <i>Sanderson's Isle</i> creates a portrait of a nation - but what a portrait is offered up here by James Clarke, and what a nation... although set 50 years and more ago, <i>Sanderson'
Set at the end of the 1960s, with the schism between straight society and the substratum of psychedelic dropouts making for some uneasy culture clashing, Clarke'
