White Lightning
$25.64
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
8 March 2007
Summary
A motorcycle messenger goes into a small park in London to paint the words ‘White Lightning’ on the tank of his bike. This is the beginning of an extraordinary novel. It is told over the space of a few months, and in these few months one man’s whole life - his failures, his successes, his longing for peace and fulfilment, his loves and his tragedies - are recounted. These memories include his film Suzi Crispin, Night Nurse, and - the darkest moment - the death of his son, which has h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340936368 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0340936363 |
| Author: | Justin Cartwright |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Sceptre |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 8 March 2007 |
| Weight: | 214g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 17mm |
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Critics Review
Brilliant, dazzling, unsettling; subtle and haunting; complex and multi-layered; deeply moving - Suzi Feay, Independent on Sunday
A work of literary art, a mellow, beautifully constructed fable about the human hunger for goodness, it is by far the best thing Cartwright has done. - David Robson, Sunday Telegraph One of the finest novelists currently at work … An altogether stunning achievement - D.J. Taylor, Guardian Hauntingly brilliant … It is the best novel I have read this year. - Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph Apart from being a profoundly serious writer, Cartwright can also be an abrasively amusing one. Scarcely a page of this book fails to yield some pleasure. WHITE LIGHTNING is a book of substantial merit. - Francis King, Literary Review Beguiling. With this novel, Cartwright, a former Whitbread Award winner has put it all together - style, story, theme - to produce something exceptional. - Giles Newington, Irish Times Subtle and moving…Cartwright weaves the story of the man and the baboon with a magicians’s delicacy…White Lightning underlines the intelligence and breadth of imagination that this former Whitbread Novel of the Year winner brings to every single paragraph of his work. - Daily Mail Justin Cartwright’s new novel may well be his finest - in an already accomplished oeuvre. Wry, achingly true and profound without being sententious, it’s a moving and bleakly funny look at life’s hellish demands and occasional moments of happiness. - William Boyd, Guardian Books of the YearAbout The Author
Justin Cartwright
Justin Cartwright was born in South Africa and educated in America and at Oxford University. His novel LEADING THE CHEERS won the Whitbread Book Award for 1998. Justin Cartwright lives in north London with his wife and two sons.
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