NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE'This twisty, absorbing thriller is both a moving love story and fascinating speculative fiction exploring memory, time and reality' GUARDIAN'An expertly crafted puzzle of a story' NEW SCIENTIST'Old-school creepy.
This anthology of poems and short stories is an homage to Texas singer/song-writer Robert Earl Keen, who stands in the songwriter/storyteller tradition of Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, John Prine, and Keens contemporaries Lyle Lovett and James McMurtry.
The reader of this novel is shocked by the frightening perception of life in a totalitarian environment, as its events take place in (the future) in the city of London in the year 1984, where Winston Smith is an employee who is not more than 39 years old.
Featuring a host of quotations displaying Austens sharp and often wicked social observation and satirical wit, this funny and wise book will strike a chord with fans of the author as well as readers new to her writing.
