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Unknown Pleasures
Joshua Winter returns to England from Canada, where he has been living since his father disappeared twelve years earlier. He is in London ostensibly to take up a job, but really he is eager to discover the truth about his father. Soon he is drifting as his search carries him deeper into a twilight world of lurid motivation and degraded aspiration. It unwittingly carries him, too, straight into a trap. So begins a trail of murder and deception.
Unknown Pleasures is a study of loss and personal dislocation. It is also a contemporary elegy, at once a search for a missing person, an evocative portrait of London, and an unsettling psychological drama which introduces a cool, edgy new voice.
Unknown Pleasures is a study of loss and personal dislocation. It is also a contemporary elegy, at once a search for a missing person, an evocative portrait of London, and an unsettling psychological drama which introduces a cool, edgy new voice.
256 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2000
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August 30, 2013
I read this book for two good reasons:
* my 2 year old daughter picked it
* JG Ballard compliments it
It's good. It's a story of identity and coming of age.
Good, terse, intelligent prose.
* my 2 year old daughter picked it
* JG Ballard compliments it
It's good. It's a story of identity and coming of age.
Good, terse, intelligent prose.
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