James Meek

The Museum of Doubt

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'Ricochets between the supernatural and the suburban ... it fizzes.' Guardian 'Stories of antler eaters, fish smokers and suburban psychopaths make up this often startling and always disturbing collection.' Duncan McLean 'One of the country's finest writers.' GQ 'Demanding and rewarding, lyrical and vernacular, smart and entertaining.' Times Literary Supplement 'The maniac energy of Kerouac pulses throughout the prose. A disturbing, magical blend of reality and fantasy.' Scotsman

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: August 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 129mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9781841958088
• ISBN-10: 1841958085
• Artikelnr.: 22130926

Autorenporträt

James Meek was born in London in 1962 and grew up in Dundee. We Are Now Beginning Our Descent is his fourth novel. His previous book, The People's Act of Love (2005), won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, the SAC Book of the Year Award, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and has been translated into more than twenty languages. He has published two collections of short stories, Last Orders and The Museum Of Doubt, and contributed to the acclaimed Rebel Inc anthologies The Children Of Albion Rovers and The Rovers Return. He has worked as a journalist since 1985, and his reporting from Iraq and about Guantanamo Bay won a number of British and international awards. In the autumn of 2001 he reported for the Guardian from Afghanistan on the war against the Taliban and the liberation of Kabu