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  <about><![CDATA[Andrew Blackman's first novel, <em><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Holloway-Road-Andrew-Blackman/dp/1906558086/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230486646&sr=1-1">On the Holloway Road</a></em>, was published by Legend Press in February 2009. The book won the Luke Bitmead Writer’s Bursary and the Novel Beginnings First Chapter Contest, and has been shortlisted for the Dundee International Book Prize.<br/><br/>Blackman recently moved back to the UK after spending six years in New York, where he worked as a staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal. He has a Bachelor’s degree in modern history from Oxford University and a Master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.]]></about>
  <influences><![CDATA[Jorge Luis Borges, Milan Kundera, Kazuo Ishiguro and many others - the list changes constantly as I read more.]]></influences>
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    <![CDATA[The novel is a clash of American mythology with contemporary British reality. Jack Maertens and Neil Blake are tired of life on London’s Holloway Road and set out north in search of meaning and freedom. Along the way they listen to a scratchy old cassette recording of Jack Kerouac’s Beat classic On the Road, and find their journey consciously and unconsciously mirroring that of Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty. They discover, however, that the horizons of 2008 Britain are considerably more limited than those of 1950s America, and their attempts to lead a spontaneous life are dogged at every turn by speed cameras, policemen and CCTV.]]>
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