Michael Marshall Smith’s surreal, groundbreaking, and award-winning debut which resonates with wild humour interlaced with dark recollections of an emotional minefield.
Stark lives in Colour, a neighbourhood whose inhabitants like to be co-ordinated with their surroundings – a neighbourhood where spangly purple trousers are admired by the walls of buildings as you pass them. Close by is Sound, where you mustn’t make any, apart from one designated hour a day when you can scream your lungs raw. Then there’s Red – get off at Fuck Station Zero if you want to see a tactical nuclear battle recreated as a sales demonstration.
Stark has friends in Red, which is just as well because Something is about to happen. And when a Something happens it’s no good chanting ‘Duck and cover’ while cowering in a corner, because a Something is always from the past, Stark’s past, and it won’t go away until you face it full on.
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Excellent reviews:
‘A major work indeed’
Today
‘Smith delivers that rarest of commodities: a genuinely new twist with a punchline of Crying Game proportions’
Time Out
‘No one writes better than Smith about love ... No one writes better about being wasted ... Nigh-on unique.’ i-D
‘A storytelling skill that can only be described as pure genius’
Venue
"Extraordinary debut" Clive Barker
Michael Marshall Smith was born and raised – itinerantly – in the USA and the UK: his parents are academics. He has helped write two radio comedy series and a pilot TV series, and is currently working on screenplays for two feature films and the BBC adaptation of Clive Barker’s Weaveworld. Only Forward was his first novel. He is distressingly young.
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