The Librarian’s Cellar: The Blocks by Karl Parkinson

The flats of O’Devaney Gardens are the setting for a narrative infused with the malignant darkness of poverty, addiction, violence and death.The Blocksis aharsh, yet poetic journey of jargon and sucker punches thatevoke haunting visionsof human nature, some spiritual, some demonic, some pathetic and some heroic, and all told in a visceral and sometimes viciousvernacular. The boy becomes a man becomes a writer, and storiedthroughhis alter-ego, Kenny Thomson, Parkinson’s characters crawl from t...