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The foot-loose Lewis, 33, returns home after years away and takes a job with the flamboyant professional poker player Oscar "Ice Cube" Hanratty. His return reunites him with the likeable but dysfunctional, Glenn, who was always his shadow from schooldays. While the chore of "minding" Oscar brings him into contact with a local "pleasure house" that offers poker and other delights to local celebs and to the town's premier league soccer players, his own personal life centres around Birdy, a street busker who is living at the town's women's refuge after fleeing to escape the violence of husband, Toby, who is threatening to break her neck once he finds her. What follows is that Lewis and Glenn become immersed in strange but believable happenings that collectively fashion an unorthodox tale of carparks, sex, violence and dreams ... in which someone, sooner or later, is going to get seriously hurt. But who that person might be and how it will happen ...?
200 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 5, 2014
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September 7, 2017
I'm not sure how or why this book ended on my kindle. It is certainly not my usual reading fodder re erotica, but I'm glad it did and that I read it.
It's very British, working class, from poorer end to nouveau riche working class from illicitly gotten gains and think themselves a cut above the rest.
Main characters, Lewis, bit of a Walter Mitty character who pretends he's lived his TV viewing as with his Alaskan crab fishing tales, he's likeable, has morals after a fashion...protective of others he sees as in need and weaker than himself. His putting up with Glenn, dysfunctional, likeable, annoying too, Glenn, (who would today, I hope, be on the autistic spectrum and given support in his daily life) has slight similarities to Rainman character played by Dustin Hoffman, but less intense.
Protective towards Birdy too, a female, busking, but more in a quid pro quo situation, but she is not what she seems and I felt annoyed by her from fairly early on.
This was realistic portrayal of the countries roughest council estates, or as often called scoundrel estates, some like 'Springfield' do exist in most towns and cities, and are virtual no go areas for police. It portrays those hardest hit by the welfare state and the scum type leeches that prey on those young, weak and vulnerable, through sex, drugs, bullying and other illegal practices. Dan Taylor knows such a place well.
The story had me laugh out loud, much to the annoyance of a husband watching TV, and reduced me to tears too at the injustices for some in our society system of today.
Well spun out story of situations, interpreted and misinterpreted, and well worth reading.
I have decided to give this a borderline 5 stars.
It's very British, working class, from poorer end to nouveau riche working class from illicitly gotten gains and think themselves a cut above the rest.
Main characters, Lewis, bit of a Walter Mitty character who pretends he's lived his TV viewing as with his Alaskan crab fishing tales, he's likeable, has morals after a fashion...protective of others he sees as in need and weaker than himself. His putting up with Glenn, dysfunctional, likeable, annoying too, Glenn, (who would today, I hope, be on the autistic spectrum and given support in his daily life) has slight similarities to Rainman character played by Dustin Hoffman, but less intense.
Protective towards Birdy too, a female, busking, but more in a quid pro quo situation, but she is not what she seems and I felt annoyed by her from fairly early on.
This was realistic portrayal of the countries roughest council estates, or as often called scoundrel estates, some like 'Springfield' do exist in most towns and cities, and are virtual no go areas for police. It portrays those hardest hit by the welfare state and the scum type leeches that prey on those young, weak and vulnerable, through sex, drugs, bullying and other illegal practices. Dan Taylor knows such a place well.
The story had me laugh out loud, much to the annoyance of a husband watching TV, and reduced me to tears too at the injustices for some in our society system of today.
Well spun out story of situations, interpreted and misinterpreted, and well worth reading.
I have decided to give this a borderline 5 stars.
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