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Park by the River
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- Book Synopsis
- Separated from far-flung family and friends by lockdown, an old man passes the hours of a global crisis in splendid isolation, with only his own thoughts, fears, fantasies and memories for company.Endlessly pacing from the park at the end of his road to a near-abandoned city centre and back, our latter-day Robinson Crusoe travels round and round the houses only to descend deeper within himself, along a well-trodden path leading either to self-knowledge and understanding or madness. Or more likely both at once.As the cold spectre of Winter confinement looms a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger seems to offer a precious opportunity for meaningful human contact - but is our urban castaway's new acquaintance all they seem?Are they even a stranger?Barney Farmer's third novel is a melancholic comedy of modern loneliness and historic loss, of one man's tussle with the void while a whole world slides down the pan.
- About The Author
- Barney Farmer is a writer, raconteur, pessimist, sceptic and aspirant public scourge from the North of England. He has worked with the artist Lee Healey for longer than either man cares to recall, and since 2002 they have graced the pages of iconic UK adult comic Viz with strips including Drunken Bakers, The Male Online, Hen Cabin and much, much more. Farmer's lyrical and 'frequently repulsive' debut novel Drunken Baker was quietly published in April 2018 to various throwaway critical acclaim, and received a similar response to his second, Coketown, when it appeared in 2019.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781903110874
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Wrecking Ball Press, (22 November 2021)
- Weight
- 456 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 148 x 211 x 16 mm
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