Deadwater by Sean Burke
Deadwater begins with the murder of a prostitute in Cardiff's Tiger Bay. The novel's protagonist, the alcoholic pharmacist Jack Farissey, wakes up next morning in blood-stained clothes on a plastic sheet and no memory of what happened the night before. Lucky for Jack that the police soon finger local gangster Carl Baja for the murder. What follows is a bleak journey through the dying Cardiff docklands as Farissey looks into his own heart of darkness and that of his childhood friend, the musician Jess Simmonds. Both Jack and Jess love the same woman, who is bent on proving Baja's innocence. Baja's release from prison will be the beginning of the end for all three of them.
?Sean Burke
s Cardiff ranks with Jonathan Lethem's Brooklyn, John Harvey's Nottingham or George Pelecanos -- Washington - which is to say, among the best? James Sallis ?Now Cardiff has its chronicler. Now that powerful and political, blood-soaked and beautiful city has the ferociously talented observer it deserves and needs. Sean shares with James Lee Burke no * a dark and barometric moralist. Deadwater will haunt me for years.? Niall Griffiths *
s Cardiff ranks with Jonathan Lethem's Brooklyn, John Harvey's Nottingham or George Pelecanos -- Washington - which is to say, among the best? James Sallis ?Now Cardiff has its chronicler. Now that powerful and political, blood-soaked and beautiful city has the ferociously talented observer it deserves and needs. Sean shares with James Lee Burke no * a dark and barometric moralist. Deadwater will haunt me for years.? Niall Griffiths *
Sean Burke was born to an Irish family in Cardiff in 1961. He studied at the universities of Canterbury and Edinburgh. His first book, The Death and Return of the Author, was published in 1992. He now lives in Durham where he teaches English at the University of Durham.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852426934 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852426934 |
| Title | Deadwater |
| Author | Sean Burke |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2002-08-29 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
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