The Sound of My Voice by Ron Butlin
Morris Magellan is an executive who runs a biscuit company in Scotland. He has a house in the suburbs, nice wife and kids and seems, on the surface, to be an embodiment of Thatcherite values. However, there is one major problem. He is a chronic alcoholic and, from the start, we sense that he is doomed and his life is about to disintegrate. He isn?t a coke-and-booze bingeing style victim with one eye on the clock, hoping to meet Ms Right and acquire the two kids and the suburban home that will straighten everything out. He already has all this and it hasn?t straightened out anything. Magellan?s journey will never end. The Sound of My Voice is as extraordinary a vision of alcoholism as Malcolm Lowry?s Under the Volcano.
The Sound of My Voice is the sound of a writer at the peak of his power, and one of the most inventive and daring novels ever to have come out of ScotlandRon Butlin is that rarest of breeds - a poet who takes the novel form and shows that it is ripe for reinvention. Playful, haunting and moving, this is writing of the highest quality? Ian Rankin ?A genuinely powerful and redemptive piece of work... uncompromising yet strangely uplifting? Greg Eden, Bookseller ?One of the greatest pieces of fiction to come out of Britain in the ?80?s. Genuinely subversive, Butlin?s book is a stylistic triumph. A major novel.? Irvine Welsh ?An extraordinarily powerful and redemptive work, as impressive for its use of language as for its emotional appeal. Butlin?s only precursor is Kafka.? Nicholas Royle, Time Out
Before taking up writing full-time Ron Butlin was, at various times, a lyricist with a pop band, a barnacle scraper on Thames barges, a footman attending embassies and country houses, and a male model. His works include the novels The Sound of My Voice, Night Visits and most recently Belonging; two collections of stories, Vivaldi and the Number 3 and The Tilting Room, and six books of poetry. His fiction and poetry have been translated into over ten languages.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852427535 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852427531 |
| Title | The Sound of My Voice |
| Author | Ron Butlin |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2002-08-22 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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