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(Moses Highness? Not a very typical English name, you might think. Nor did Moses, growing up alone in the outside world, as he began to scour the phonebooks for some clue to his origins. He moved to London and found a flatmate, Eddie, who was so beautiful he could make people faint. He also found Gloria, a jazz-singer, and fell in love with her because her eyebrows told the time like the hands on a clock.
But he had still to unearth the bizarre and chilling secrets of his past. He had yet to learn of his mother who ate raw yeast because she wanted to rise out of her misery, his father who spent eight years in bed, the greengrocer who disguised himself as a section of ploughed field, the postman who thought he was Tarzan. And, most threatening of all, the brutal, obsessive figure of Chief Inspector Peach, head of the village police, who had an old score to settle)
But he had still to unearth the bizarre and chilling secrets of his past. He had yet to learn of his mother who ate raw yeast because she wanted to rise out of her misery, his father who spent eight years in bed, the greengrocer who disguised himself as a section of ploughed field, the postman who thought he was Tarzan. And, most threatening of all, the brutal, obsessive figure of Chief Inspector Peach, head of the village police, who had an old score to settle)
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One of the most haunting, resonant and clever parables about England you'll ever read (Guardian)
Imagine the quintessential English village filmed by Bunuel and written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (New York Times Book Review)
Thomson chillingly fuses the real and the unreal with terrifying grace and infinite imagination. It's hard to believe this sophisticated, edgy novel is his first (Mail on Sunday)
When someone writes as well as Thomson does, it makes you wonder why other people bother (New Statesman)
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Imagine the quintessential English village filmed by Bunuel and written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (New York Times Book Review)
Thomson chillingly fuses the real and the unreal with terrifying grace and infinite imagination. It's hard to believe this sophisticated, edgy novel is his first (Mail on Sunday)
When someone writes as well as Thomson does, it makes you wonder why other people bother (New Statesman)
25th anniversary edition, with a new introduction by the author
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- PublisherBlack Swan
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0552993239
- ISBN 13 9780552993234
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