Rumours of a Hurricane by Tim Lott
1991, London. A street drunk is rushed into casualty, the victim of a horrific traffic accident. He carries a social security card, a digital watch, and a torn and yellowed newspaper cutting - an obituary. But his relatives cannot be traced. How did he end up here? To answer that we need to go back to 1979, a time before the Big Bang, before Margaret Thatcher came to power, before greed became good, before the hurricane.
By the author of White City Blue, winner of the 1999 Whitbread First Novel AwardA man teeters drunk on the edge of the pavement and takes a deep draught from a can clutched in his hand. He is hit by a lorry, badly injured and rushed to hospital. His National Insurance card identifies him as Charles William Buck and he has on him a newspaper cutting about the musician Mantovani headed 'Goodbye Mr Music'. Once Buck had been somebody with a wife, home and son. Now all is gone. The story moves back to 1979 when Margaret Thatcher came to power. It is a novel about one rather ordinary man and his life in the 1980s. It's about power, money and families and Tim Lott turns this ordinary man's life into a powerful and cleverly woven tale.
Tim Lott is a journalist and writer. His previous books are The Scent of Dried Roses, which was awarded the Jr Ackerley Prize for Autobiography and White City Blue, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award. He lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780670886616 |
| ISBN 10 | 0670886610 |
| Title | Rumours of a Hurricane |
| Author | Tim Lott |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2002-02-07 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Whitbread Prize (Novel) 2002, Short-listed for Whitbread Book Awards: Novel Category 2002 |
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