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Adam et Eve ont quinze ans à Middlesbrough, dans le nord de l’Angleterre. Affligé de TOC, Adam tente de trouver le courage d’aborder la jolie Eve, qui préfère goûter à tous les fruits défendus : vie nocturne, sexe, drogues, alcool... Mêlant constamment poésie et réalité crue, Richard Milward entraîne le lecteur dans une tragicomédie rythmée par les Beatles, la house music et les Stones.
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La jolie Georgie aime deux choses : les bonbecs et son petit ami Bobby. Bobby l'Artiste aime deux choses : Georgie et peindre sous l'influence de drogues psychédéliques que lui refourgue son voisin Johnny. Johnny le dealer de service aime deux choses : le porno et sa petite amie Ellen. Ellen la chômeuse professionnelle aime deux choses : Johnny et faire l'amour, mais pas avec Johnny, parce qu'il ne sait vraiment pas s'y prendre. Tout ce petit monde se croise, trinque et fait la fête à Peach House, une tour HLM de Middlesbrough, au nord de l'Angleterre. Jusqu'au jour où les toiles de Bobby sont repérées par une galerie branchée de Londres. L'harmonie apparente de Peach House y survivra-t-elle ?
Kimberly Clark was born to the sound of cackling witches in 1984. Having moved to London to follow her heart's dream, the sweet-but-slow Stevie, she soon tires of him and decides to destroy the relationship from within by being as vile as is humanly possible. When this tactic leads to Stevie's violent death by his own hand, Kimberly's soul hangs in the balance - will she ultimately spend eternity in the great TopShop in the sky? Or will she be hurtled into an abyss of endless physical torture, sexual humiliation and bad stand-up comedy? This is the story of Kimberly's redemption, or possibly the story of her damnation: it's up to you. There are six different endings on offer.
This is a shocking, laugh-out-loud, nightmare-and-nausea-inducing book. It is a wild narrative experiment that recalls taboo-busting writers from William Burroughs to Irvine Welsh to Chuck Palahniuk.
Set at the fag-end of the 60s at the moment when Swinging London is starting to take on a darker hue in the wake of Charles Manson's murders, and framed as a novel within a novel published by a seedy Piccadilly-based publisher of pulp fiction, MAN-EATING TYPEWRITER is a homage to the great oulipo experiments in fiction. It is the story of a psychopath called Raymond Novak and his untimely demise told entirely in 'polari' - a language developed and used mainly amongst the metropolitan homosexual community in the time when being gay was still a criminal offence. From a love affair with a Barbary Ape on the Rock of Gibraltar to erotic cabaret in Paris and unreliable adventures with Madam Ovary, Raymond's mother in the bombed-out ruins of Blitzed London, MAN-EATING TYPEWRITER is an act of seductive sedition by a writer with unfathomable literary talent and chutzpah. Wild, transgressive, erotic, offensive and resolutely uncompromising, this marks the return of a writer who is out there on an island of his own making; a book that will be talked about, celebrated and misunderstood for decades.
