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No doubt some will find titillation in attempting to identify the originals of some of his more unlikely and endearing characters, but for the rest of us.... Wilf Wellingborough is a hapless young Oxford graduate who suddenly finds himself heading the respected but dull Arts Unlimited--following the death of his girlfriend's father in suspicious circumstances after having just-that-minute sold the monthly to Wilf's childhood friend Jimmy Spalding. It's the kind of arsenic-laced lucky pill that Wilf is too fond of swallowing.
In time, not surprisingly, girlfriend Grace walks out; Wilf acquires as lover a ruthlessly ambitious New York-based editor; he loses the job, and finally finds himself drawn to Spalding's wife, and a Vauxhall squat which somehow leads (in a sudden crazy spiralling of the plot) to sinister deadly attacks. The 1980s are evoked in a litany of lost icons--Wayne Sleep, Mrs T, Ludovic Kennedy, Wogan--and invocations of "the new ruthlessness", "the new amorality", but the best and most real moments of Smashing People come when the forced, nasty humour of London's literati is left far behind, and we explore Wilf's roots. Fishwick's plan is to relate all this 1980s decadence in his characters' shared youth in Shropshire and Oxford. It seems true of his tale that, no matter what road these people take, they all lead back to Shrewsbury. There Fishwick finds a tenderness and depth that his smashing people can never provide.--Alan Stewart
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