The Sound of My Voice
by Ron Butlin
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Pub Date 13 Mar 2017 | Archive Date 2 Mar 2017
Description
Morris Magellan is an executive who runs a biscuit company in Scotland.
He has a house in the suburbs, nice wife and kids and seems, on the
surface, to be an embodiment of Thatcherite values. However, there is
one major problem. He is a chronic alcoholic and, from the start, we
sense that he is doomed and his life is about to disintegrate. He isn't a
coke-and-booze bingeing style victim with one eye on the clock, hoping
to meet Ms Right and acquire the two kids and the suburban home that
will straighten everything out. He already has all this and it hasn't
straightened out anything. Magellan's journey will never end. The Sound
of My Voice is as extraordinary a vision of alcoholism as Malcolm
Lowry's Under the Volcano.
Advance Praise
'The Sound of My Voice is the sound of a writer at the peak of his power, and one of the most inventive and daring novels ever to have come out of Scotland. Ron Butlin is that rarest of breeds - a poet who takes the novel form and shows that it is ripe for reinvention. Playful, haunting and moving, this is writing of the highest quality.' Ian Rankin
'One of the greatest pieces of fiction to come out of Britain in the 80s. Genuinely subversive, Butlin's book is a stylistic triumph. A major novel.' Irvine Welsh
'An extraordinarily powerful and redemptive work, as impressive for its use of language as for its emotional appeal. Butlin?s only precursor is Kafka.' Nicholas Royle, Time Out
'A genuinely powerful and redemptive piece of work... uncompromising yet
strangely uplifting.' Greg Eden, Bookseller
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781911332381 |
| PRICE | £5.99 (GBP) |
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