A State of Shock by Nicholas Salaman
Very funny, but very sinister story in bestselling style of Salaman’s The Frights. A female barrister is given the job of defending a male murderer. Drawn into his story, she becomes convinced of his innocence. At the same time, she is plagued by disturbing phone calls. Her boyfriend is studying the decline of institutions, convinced that society can no longer cope with the speed of change in electronic communication. How do the threads pull together? A weirdly sinister – and at the same time indisputably very funny – experiment will draw the various players into a modern maze of virtual reality and political chicanery. Salaman combines laugh-out-loud one-liners with a disturbing vision of the world just around the corner in a tour de force entertainment.Praise for the author’s previous novels:
The Frights:
‘Baroque characters, witty sex and stylishly funny’
The Times
‘Deliciously piquant and affectionate observation’
Cosmopolitan
‘Reeking with malice and lust… a genuine talent for constructive alarm’
The Guardian
Dangerous Pursuits
‘is great fun throughout… a brilliantly sustained performance… as preposterous as anything imagined by Tom Sharpe’
The Standard
The Garden of Earthly Delights:
‘Crisply efficient and informativeBetter still, the thickening of the atmospheric soup is pacey, enticing, carrying the reader briskly and agreeably along’
Times Literary Supplement
Nicholas Salaman was born in west Somerset, and educated at Radley and Oxford. He has written plays produced on television and the London stage, as well as a number of novels and children’s books. He is married, lives in London, and plays the harpsichord.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780006490302 |
| ISBN 10 | 0006490301 |
| Title | A State of Shock |
| Author | Nicholas Salaman |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 1998-07-20 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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