Sean-Paul Thomas
John Fante has been a big influence on me, especially Ask the Dust and The Brotherhood of the grape. I love a good Knut Hamson yarn too like Pan, Victoria, Mysteries or the Wanderer. Love a bit of Irvine Welsh too. More than anything I just love a bit of gritty raw realism and well grounded, simple writing, with complex, interesting and raw characters that I can totally relate too. I guess when it comes down to it I prefer my characters to be complex rather than the plot.
And I think there is no better example of this than in Stephen Vizinczey's - In Praise of Older Women. A brilliant simple book, basically about his love life from the age of 12 right up into his twenties, played out to the backdrop of the second world war and the new communist regime in Hungary directly after.
And I think there is no better example of this than in Stephen Vizinczey's - In Praise of Older Women. A brilliant simple book, basically about his love life from the age of 12 right up into his twenties, played out to the backdrop of the second world war and the new communist regime in Hungary directly after.
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