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Stump makes you feel that you are reading on the edge of a life in a fiercegale vulnerable excited alive.The Guardian LondonWet an spectacular wreckage leads to powerful forgetting which leads toperiodics which lead to the dry drunks which go to immersion an enableran therapeutic alliance an any alternative any fuckin alternative atropineaversion therapy or Antabuse or ECT or acufuckinpuncture or snakepits orswimming with dolphins an all of that all of it comes completely back to thisone pure irreducible phenomenon a booming heart that burns to drink.It has taken the loss of a limb and a death threat from the Mob to make oneLiverpudlian dry out and move to a small seaside town in Wales. But his pastlife is a recurring nightmarefilth desperation and blackouts. And moretrouble is only a hundred miles away. Darren and Alastair leave Liverpoolheading south in a rickety old car. They have been sent by their gang boss towreak violent revenge but they have only a rough idea of their quarry a onearmed man.Interspersed between the scabrous banter and a pitchperfect street dialectNiall Griffiths offers stunning descriptions of the Welsh landscape and a darkknowing humor. Despite the ever present drugs violence and anger he revealsa fragile humanity. Graywolf is proud to introduce this striking distinctivevoice to American readers. «
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