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category: Fiction
published: Nov 2010
ISBN:9781554200771
publisher: New Star Books

Sweet England

by Steve Weiner

tagged: dystopian, literary
Description

Steve Weiner's harrowing portrayal of post-Thatcher England follows a man of no known origin and unstable personality and his efforts to re-enter society after a long and unexplained absence. The reader sees events through Jack's mostly uncomprehending eyes as he negotiates the margins of a London that resembles the city of memory and story only in incidental details. Replete with episodes of manic religion and delusions, the world in Sweet England is hard, dark, and dangerous. Exploitation and violence provide a steady background glow that illuminates Jack's relationship with Brenda, with whom he is living, drinking, brawling, and loving. Weiner's London is equally a protagonist of his story. Dirty, sombre, the city is a palimpsest, the contemporary curry houses and mosques reinscribing the landscape dotted with old churches, monuments and graveyards that invoke old England's Christian saints and glorious past. Phantasmagoric and allegorical, and told largely through dialogue, Sweet England's vision will haunt the reader long after they put down this compelling book.

About the Author

Steve Weiner

Author Steve Weiner draws on his own mid-western roots in telling this tale of a deeply fractured, confused society. The author of Sweet England (2010), The Yellow Sailor (2001) and The Museum of Love (1993; finalist for the Giller Prize), Steve Weiner lives in London, UK.
Contributor Notes

Sweet England is Steve Weiner's third novel. His debut in 1993, The Museum of Love, was a Giller Prize finalist, and was published in the UK, Japan, France and Belgium as well as in North America. His second novel, The Yellow Sailor, was published in 2001. Weiner's books have been compared to the novels of CĂ©line and Burroughs, and the films of Lynch and Cronenberg. He lives in Vancouver.

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