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.
Told in Polari,it is the story of an anarchist named Raymond Novak and his plan to commit a'fantabulosa crime'in 276 days that will revolt the world. 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.
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.
Wild,transgressive,erotic and resolutely uncompromising,this marks the return of a writer who is out there on an island of his own making; a book that will be talked about,celebrated and puzzled over for decades.
Publisher: Orion Publishing CoISBN: 9781399602013Number of pages: 544Weight: 660 gDimensions: 232 x 154 x 44 mm
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'Single-handely proving the novel isn't dead,Milward breathes new life into the form in this erudite,witty yet immaculately crafted,romp of a book.'- Ali Millar,author of The Last Days
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