| City Of Tiny Lights by Patrick Neate [message #254145] |
Di, 18 April 2006 19:13 |
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Not a cover version but a novel by the same name.
UK: Penguin Viking, 2005
US: Riverhead Books, 2006
There are references to FZ on pages 115 (also Beefheart) and 121
(explaining the book title).
--Charles
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| Re: City Of Tiny Lights by Patrick Neate [message #254147 ] |
Di, 18 April 2006 21:33 |
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In article <ulrich-374D24.10143418042006 [at] shawnews>,
Charles Ulrich <ulrich [at] sfu.ca> wrote:
> Not a cover version but a novel by the same name.
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> UK: Penguin Viking, 2005
> US: Riverhead Books, 2006
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> There are references to FZ on pages 115 (also Beefheart) and 121
> (explaining the book title).
A review quoted on the front cover uses the word "Chandleresque". I
wondered whether it would be justified until I read the first page.
"...my bedroom stank like a pub ashtray at chucking-out time... It
didn't occur to me that this stink was oozing out of my pores like
butter through the holes in a cheese cracker."
Okay, Chandleresque.
Be warned that the book is so full of cricket, rhyming slang, and
general briticisms that most non-Brits will comprehend less than they
might hope.
--Charles
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