Man-Eating Typewriter: Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2023

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Paperback | 544 pages157 x 234 x 43 | 678g

'Set at the fag-end of the 1960s and framed as a novel within a novel published by a seedy London purveyor of pulp fiction, MAN-EATING TYPEWRITER is a homage to the avant-garde counterculture of the 20th century. Constructed like a hallucinogenic cocktail of A Clockwork Orange, Pale Fire and Jean Genet's jailbird fantasies, MAN-EATING TYPEWRITER is an act of seductive sedition by a writer with unfathomable literary talent and boldness. A surrealistic odyssey that stretches from occupied Paris to the cruise-liner SS Unmentionable to lawless Tangier before settling in Swinging London, the book casts Novak as an agitator and freedom fighter - but, as his memoirs become more and more threatening, his publishers find themselves far more involved in his violent personality cult than they ever intended. Format: Paperback / softbackLength: 544 pagesPublication date: 16 March 2023Publisher: Orion Publishing Co An experimental novel set in the 1960s that truly embraces the avant-garde - and is, itself a coded history of the 20th century avant-garde from oulipo to auto-destructive art - from the highly acclaimed author of APPLES 'A major talent' Irvine Welsh'Remarkable, beautiful, magic.

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