Falling Through: A Novel - Softcover

Muckle, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848615353 ISBN 13: 9781848615359

Publisher: Shearsman Books, 2017

Synopsis

Who is that man peering through an iron telescope outside Alexandra Palace? Ray Davies? Matthew Arnold? Graham Greene? Graham Bartlett travels to his mystery assignations with teenagers, and for a few quid improves their GCSE homework. What led him to this lonely, peripatetic existence? Years earlier he had lived in various other guises, half-remembered as he criss-crosses swathes of suburban north London. Murders are committed. Riots explode. Model gliders are launched. Lovers part. Graham continues doggedly on his rounds, finding sustenance in his glancing encounters with real and imagined others. Turks. Africans. West Indians. Kosovans. Falling Through is a haunted, darkly funny portrayal of a side of London that hasn’t often found its way into fiction.

 

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About the Author

John Muckle was born in the village of Cobham, Surrey, but has lived most of his life in Essex and London. In the 1980s he initiatedthe Paladin Poetry Series and was General Editor of its flagship anthology, The New British Poetry (Paladin, 1988). His previous books include The Cresta Run (short stories), Cyclomotors (a novella with photographic illustrations), Firewriting and Other Poems (Shearsman Books, 2005), two novels, also from Shearsman, London Brakes (2010) and My Pale Tulip (2012), and a critical study of British fiction in the 1950s and 1960s, Little White Bull (Shearsman, 2014).

Edition details

• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848615353
• ISBN 13: 9781848615359
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232