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"In the autumn of 2004, shortly after his memorable interview with the President of the United States and following the publication of his elder son's novelised autobiography, cruelly entitled Under His Shadow, celebrity journalist, broadcaster and documentary film-maker Harold Cleaver boarded a British Airways flight from London Gatwick to Milan Malpensa, proceeded by Italian railways as far as Bruneck in the South Tyrol and thence by taxi, northwards, to the village of Luttach only a few kilometres from the Austrian border, from whence he hoped to find some remote mountain habitation in which to spend the next, if not necessarily the last, years of his life."
Thus opens Tim Parks' new novel and masterpiece. Overweight and overwrought, London's most successful journalist abandons home, partner, mistresses and above all television, the instrument that brought him identity and power. His quest: to climb above "the noise line," to get beyond the e.mail and the mobile phone and the interminable clamour of the public voice of which he himself was such a master. Weeks later, snowed in at five thousand feet, harangued by voices from the past and humiliated by his inability to understand the gothic peasants he relies on for food and whisky, Cleaver discovers that there is nowhere so noisy and so dangerous as the solitary mind.
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Profound and comic, the story of London TV journalist and interviewer Harold Cleaver, who suddenly walks away from his life to hide in the mountains of the Tyrol.
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- PublisherHarvill Secker
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0436205610
- ISBN 13 9780436205613
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
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Book Description First edition, 2006. Signed to the title page by the author. Hardback. 316pp. Black cloth boards with gold lettering to spine. Dust jacket. Cleaver tries to escape the pressures of his personal and professinal life by flying to Milan and heading deep into the South Tyrol. His quest is to find a remote mountain hut, to climb above 'the noise line'. Weeks later and snowed in at five thousand feet, harangued by voices from the past and humiliated by his inability to understand the Tyrolean peasants he relies on for food and whisky, Cleaver discovers that there is nowhere so noisy and dangerous as the solitary mind. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket unclipped and near fine. Book. Seller Inventory # 1306405
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