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In this provocative novel Mark Blacklock portrays the true and complex history of John Humble, aka Wearside Jack, the Ripper Hoaxer, a timewaster and criminal, sympathetic and revolting, the man hidden by a wall of words, a fiction-spinner worthy of textual analysis. In this remarkable work, John Humble leads the reader into an allusive, elusive labyrinth of interpretations, simultaneously hoodwinking and revealing. I'm Jack is a riveting novel about truth, lies, prison and shame. It is also a profound and furious love letter to Sunderland. It is a puzzle, a hoax, a multi-voice portrait and a virtuoso assemblage of textual elements. I'm Jack announces the arrival of a radically talented and innovative novelist.
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'Here are dark telegrams from an expertly realised otherness that is Sunderland. Spare. Swift. Smart. And dangerous. Carrying us through maps of shame to rescue a convincing fiction of the past from its sullen entropy' -- Iain Sinclair
'Absorbing and fascinating. Using multi-layered storytelling, a deep personal knowledge of Sunderland past, present and legend in a believable and hard-hitting blend of fact and imagination, it paints a genuinely disturbing vision of an obsessive, calculating and ultimately self-destructive personality' -- Bryan Talbot, author of Dotter of Her Father's Eyes
'A gripping study in self-invention - and, ultimately, self-erasure' -- Tom McCarthy
'An audacious exercise in mimicry... Blacklock has the voice down pat, with the same insidiously familiar tone as Humble's tape or his original letters. Its tone is mischievous, with a vein of dark, crafty humour - though the overall effect is sombre. Blacklock's Humble is impossible to like; yet by the end it is almost impossible not to feel sorry for him' -- Financial Times
'A deftly executed ventriloquist act, it's anchored in the true story of notorious hoaxer John Humble... The book itself is just as slippery' --Observer
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'Absorbing and fascinating. Using multi-layered storytelling, a deep personal knowledge of Sunderland past, present and legend in a believable and hard-hitting blend of fact and imagination, it paints a genuinely disturbing vision of an obsessive, calculating and ultimately self-destructive personality' -- Bryan Talbot, author of Dotter of Her Father's Eyes
'A gripping study in self-invention - and, ultimately, self-erasure' -- Tom McCarthy
'An audacious exercise in mimicry... Blacklock has the voice down pat, with the same insidiously familiar tone as Humble's tape or his original letters. Its tone is mischievous, with a vein of dark, crafty humour - though the overall effect is sombre. Blacklock's Humble is impossible to like; yet by the end it is almost impossible not to feel sorry for him' -- Financial Times
'A deftly executed ventriloquist act, it's anchored in the true story of notorious hoaxer John Humble... The book itself is just as slippery' --Observer
MARK BLACKLOCK has a doctorate in 4th Dimensionality and lives in London.
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- PublisherGranta
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1783780843
- ISBN 13 9781783780846
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240
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