{"product_id":"will-wiles-plume-2019-hardback","title":"Will Wiles: Plume [2019] hardback","description":"'Wiles is basically Kafka, if Kafka had spent more time in British hotels and pubs' David Baddiel\u003cbr\u003e          Will Wiles both re-invents and murders the London novel, in a spectacular act of evil, surgical intensity' Warren Ellis\u003cbr\u003e          'It's outstanding' \u003cem\u003eMail on Sunday, Event Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e            \u003cstrong\u003eThe dark, doomy humour of \u003cem\u003eCare of Wooden Floors\u003c\/em\u003e mixed with the fantastical, anarchic sense of possibility of \u003cem\u003eThe Way Inn\u003c\/em\u003e, brought together in a fast moving story set in contemporary London.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eJack Bick is an interview journalist at a glossy lifestyle magazine. From his office window he can see a black column of smoke in the sky, the result of an industrial accident on the edge of the city. When Bick goes from being a high-functioning alcoholic to being a non-functioning alcoholic, his life goes into freefall, the smoke a harbinger of truth, an omen of personal apocalypse. An unpromising interview with Oliver Pierce, a reclusive cult novelist, unexpectedly yields a huge story, one that could save his job. But the novelist knows something about Bick, and the two men are drawn into a bizarre, violent partnership that is both an act of defiance against the changing city, and a surrender to its spreading darkness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eWith its rich emotional palette, \u003cem\u003ePlume\u003c\/em\u003e explores the relationship between truth and memory: personal truth, journalistic truth, novelistic truth. It is a surreal and mysterious exploration of the precariousness of life in modern London.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiles, Will","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":55023380693331,"sku":"XV80008194413","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/wiles-will-will-wiles-plume-2019-hardback-xv80008194413-1259575622.jpg?v=1790088820","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/will-wiles-plume-2019-hardback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}