Last Stop Salina Cruz by David Lale
Fleeing from the tedium of his everyday life and the painful memory of a dying father, the narrator of "Last Stop: Salina Cruz" embarks on a long solitary journey retracing the footsteps of real-life malcontent and misanthrope par-excellence Arthur Cravan, the nephew of Oscar Wilde. As a lambasting critic, poet-boxer and Dadaist anti-hero, Cravan wreaked havoc on himself and three continents during the course of a short and spectacular life, which led him across the world in an escalating frenzy of self-destruction. Along the way, our young protagonist encounters every species of grotesque human character blighting Europe, the United States and South America, until he reaches the shores of the desolate oil town of Salina Cruz, the site of Cravan's mysterious disappearance. Only there does the true purpose of his journey become at last apparent.
"Elegantly written, and by turns poignant and laugh-aloud funny, Last Stop Salina Cruz is a remarkably assured debut that would not have been out of place on the Booker longlist" THE DAILY TELEGRAPH"... possesses a translucent, cinematic beauty." THE INDEPENDENT"Lale is a gifted stylist who makes poetry out of beautifully wrought misery." METRO
David Lale studied at Edinburgh University and is currently on the documentary direction course at the National Film and Television School. Aged 27, he lives in Oxford. Last Stop Salina Cruz is his first book.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781846880605 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846880602 |
| Title | Last Stop Salina Cruz |
| Author | David Lale |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Alma Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2008-05-13 |
| Number of pages | 300 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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