These Demented Lands by Alan Warner
An aircrash investigator haunts the hinterlands of an island. A woman makes landfall on the island, and DJ Cormorant is trying to organise a rave on the adjacent airstrip. This work features twisted characters - The Arganout, the Knife Sharpener, The Devil's Advocate and others - converging for one final Saturday night at the Drome Hotel.
Warner's second novel is a classic like his first one.. glorious... powerful * Independent *
A moving evocation of post- apocalyptic rave culture in the West Highlands of contemporary Scotland * Independent on Sunday *
Prodigious powers of invention... marvellously dynamic prose... brilliant visual imagination... A greatly ambitious novel * Times Literary Supplement *
Think of the inventiveness of Iain Banks filtered through the lurid lens of a David Lynch, with a soundtrack from Verve and Bob Dylan... These Demented Lands is fiction 'on the Outer Rim of everything'. Rave on, child * Scotsman *
With a style that fuses poetic discipline with the riff-based scat of a hedonist * Esquire *
A moving evocation of post- apocalyptic rave culture in the West Highlands of contemporary Scotland * Independent on Sunday *
Prodigious powers of invention... marvellously dynamic prose... brilliant visual imagination... A greatly ambitious novel * Times Literary Supplement *
Think of the inventiveness of Iain Banks filtered through the lurid lens of a David Lynch, with a soundtrack from Verve and Bob Dylan... These Demented Lands is fiction 'on the Outer Rim of everything'. Rave on, child * Scotsman *
With a style that fuses poetic discipline with the riff-based scat of a hedonist * Esquire *
Alan Warner is the author of six other novels: Morvern Callar, The Sopranos, The Man Who Walks, The Worms Can Carry Me To Heaven, The Stars in the Bright Sky, which was longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize, and The Deadman's Pedal. He is Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099577911 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099577917 |
| Title | These Demented Lands |
| Author | Alan Warner |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1998-02-05 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Prizes | Winner of Encore Award 1998 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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