Kensington Gardens by Rodrigo Fresan
Spanning more than a century from the late Victorian period - and the intimately-drawn details of the life of J. M. Barrie - to the dawn of the new millennium and the fractured life of an internationally acclaimed children's novelist, Peter Hook, Kensington Gardens weaves an intricate cat's cradle of narratives around the lysergic London of the Swinging Sixties and the boy who never grew up. Growing up in a vast west London estate called Neverland, Hook's childhood was shaped by the mysterious death of his younger brother, his parents' rock-n-roll lifestyle and his father's performances in a seminal band of the time. Yet despite such dysfunctional beginnings, Hook has become the most successful children's author of his generation as the creator of the time-travelling Jim Yang. In Kensington Gardens, Hook narrates his story (and that of Barrie, Peter Pan and Llewelyn Davies) to Keiko Kai, the Japanese actor cursed with the role of playing Jim Yang in the blockbuster movies of his creation. Over the course of one night in a flat in Kensington Gardens, a fantastical and terrible story emerges - a story of shadow identities and suicide, lost boys and found orphans.
"'.. a sort of Zen and the Art of Penny-Farthing Maintenance' DBC Pierre"
Rodrigo Fresan Kensington Gardens is the fourth novel by Rodrigo Fresan, the enfant terrible of Latin American fiction. He was born in Buenos Aires and lives in Barcelona. He speaks perfect English and is in his late thirties.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571222803 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571222803 |
| Title | Kensington Gardens |
| Author | Rodrigo Fresan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2005-07-21 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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