Helen Mannion

The Human Barnacle (eBook, ePUB)

A Tale of Two Moralities

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A child of the 1970s Permissive Society, Tuesday Penrose is truly a Human Barnacle. She attaches herself to a rock of security ensuring financial freedom, and waits for the high tide of human plankton. Ensnaring a new man every night, her appetite is voracious, depraved. She is immoral and amoral in equal measure and knows the meaning of neither word. Deploring the excesses of the Permissive Society, the traditional social fabric is under assault. For many, Tuesday exemplifies the rampant libertine excesses of the unfettered young generation. But set against this New Wave, life in the wider world continued. In the South Pacific, a luxury hotel in the Maldives is destroyed by a tsunami. Guests and staff are transferred to the partner hotel in Nauru. The most recent staff appointment is barmaid Tuesday Penrose, and here the Human Barnacle is confronted by the established values. When even exorcism by the priest Carolingus fails to rid Tuesday of her demons, it is up to a most unlikely reformed reprobate, Macedonian brigand Konstantin Kolper, to show Tuesday an alternative freedom. It is a Battle Royal and the demons within fight expulsion with all their force. Tuesdays future and her fate hang in the balance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: AuthorHouse UK
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781504994576
• Artikelnr.: 52607224

Autorenporträt

Helen Mannion is a social historian specialising in the latter half of the 20th century in Britain. Born in 1950, she had first-hand experience of the social turmoil created post-1968 by the growth of the Permissive Society. In this novel, she juxtaposes the post-World War II social fabric and the massive upheaval of the 1968 student revolution and its consequences throughout Europe. The "all rights, no responsibilities" libertine excesses of the 1970s were deplored by an inundated, uncomprehending 1950s mentality society which saw the unstoppable advance of a tsunami of moral depravity. All this is set in the context of a bankrupt UK and the world living in fear of thermo-nuclear extinction of all life on the planet. Helen Mannion is a contemporary of author John Trethewey. They have been close friends for over fifty years, ever since they sat side by side in their village primary school. With her friend's permission, Helen Mannion has incorporated some characters from her friend's novels in "The Human Barnacle".