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No London neighbourhood more resembles the restless downstream tide of the Thames than the ragged square mile of Soho, and into this human rabbit warren one evening slips Alex Singer, a student from Leeds in pursuit of his errant girlfriend. Twenty-four hours, three deaths, one fire and one mugging later, seduced, traduced and befriended, Alex is on his way to the Soho Ball. In this fast, funny and superbly crafted novel, Keith Waterhouse draws a vibrant portrait of London's liveliest quarter past and present and of its eccentric inhabitants.
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Review:
Quite easily the wittiest and best chronicler of contemporary life (The Sunday Telegraph)
It's a wonderful evocation of a part of London the author loves and he has succeeded superbly in capturing its sleazy yet alluring nature, not least through the idiosyncratic characters who roam its streets and prop up its bars ... a feisty and funny book. (George Osgerby, Tribune)
You stay gripped from the opening paragraph ... It crackles with insight about the nature of sexual obsession (Val Hennessy in the Daily Mail)
Waterhouse uses Alex's saucer-eyed awareness of "So-oh's" otherness to take the reader on a wistful and gently amusing trawl through the area. Even episodes of sexual perversion and murder are recounted witha deft lightness of touch, though a metropolitan cynicism lurks on the peripheries of this entertaining farce. (The Times)
'Waterhouse writes in the best tradition of English Comic novelists, with a splendid ear for conversational dialogue, a fine eye for detail and the ability to exaggerate reality just enough to make it hilarious but not too implausible. Surround it all with a cloak of benign sleaziness, leave it soaking in alcohol and the whole novel descends into an uproarious romp of ever-increasing rambling complexity ... Keith Waterhouse is one of the most prolific and versatile of British comic writers and Soho finds him at his most entertaining and mischievous' William Hartson, Daily Express
He can be angrily oratorical, bluntly rude, soberly informative, boozily clownish, but cannot stop being very, very funny (Alan Brien in The Sunday Times)
'As well as being a fast-paced farce, a string of encounters and incidents that could keep a full pub of people entertained for several evenings on end, Waterhouse's 13th novel is an elegy to a vanishing world. Soho the place may not be quite what it was, but in Soho the novel, Waterhouse brings it vibrantly to life.' Juliette Garside, Sunday Herald (Glasgow)
A treat for sore brains (Patrick Skene Catling in The Spectator)
With its breakneck pacing and kinetic characters, SOHO captures the ever- morphing nature of the area. (BIZARRE Magazine)
'Tender, slapstick and otherworldly, Soho is W1 through the looking glass.' Rodger Evans, The List
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It's a wonderful evocation of a part of London the author loves and he has succeeded superbly in capturing its sleazy yet alluring nature, not least through the idiosyncratic characters who roam its streets and prop up its bars ... a feisty and funny book. (George Osgerby, Tribune)
You stay gripped from the opening paragraph ... It crackles with insight about the nature of sexual obsession (Val Hennessy in the Daily Mail)
Waterhouse uses Alex's saucer-eyed awareness of "So-oh's" otherness to take the reader on a wistful and gently amusing trawl through the area. Even episodes of sexual perversion and murder are recounted witha deft lightness of touch, though a metropolitan cynicism lurks on the peripheries of this entertaining farce. (The Times)
'Waterhouse writes in the best tradition of English Comic novelists, with a splendid ear for conversational dialogue, a fine eye for detail and the ability to exaggerate reality just enough to make it hilarious but not too implausible. Surround it all with a cloak of benign sleaziness, leave it soaking in alcohol and the whole novel descends into an uproarious romp of ever-increasing rambling complexity ... Keith Waterhouse is one of the most prolific and versatile of British comic writers and Soho finds him at his most entertaining and mischievous' William Hartson, Daily Express
He can be angrily oratorical, bluntly rude, soberly informative, boozily clownish, but cannot stop being very, very funny (Alan Brien in The Sunday Times)
'As well as being a fast-paced farce, a string of encounters and incidents that could keep a full pub of people entertained for several evenings on end, Waterhouse's 13th novel is an elegy to a vanishing world. Soho the place may not be quite what it was, but in Soho the novel, Waterhouse brings it vibrantly to life.' Juliette Garside, Sunday Herald (Glasgow)
A treat for sore brains (Patrick Skene Catling in The Spectator)
With its breakneck pacing and kinetic characters, SOHO captures the ever- morphing nature of the area. (BIZARRE Magazine)
'Tender, slapstick and otherworldly, Soho is W1 through the looking glass.' Rodger Evans, The List
A tour de force from the creator of Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell and Billy Liar.
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- PublisherSceptre
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0340820217
- ISBN 13 9780340820216
- BindingPaperback
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