The Sound of My Voice - Softcover

Butlin, Ron

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ISBN 10: 1852427531 ISBN 13: 9781852427535

Publisher: Serpent's Tail, 2002

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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.

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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 Scotland. Ron 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

Synopsis:

Morris Mageilan is an executive who runs a biscuit company. He has a house in the suburbs, nice wife and kids. But Morris is also a chronic alcoholic, heading fast towards self-destruction. Unlike the New York and London-based antiheroes of the yuppie novel, Morris is not a victim of excess. He isn't a coke-and-booze-bingeing style victim with perhaps 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. Ron Butlin's tale of one man's inner turmoll is haunting, harrowing, yet strangely uplifting; a major piece of fiction from a hugely talented writer.

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