EAN: 9781472151971

SUGAR STREET - JONATHAN DEE KARTONIERT (TB)

'This propulsive and furious book is as fun to read as it is relentless and unsparing. Deranged
and faltering America  Jonathan Dee has your number' Joshua Ferris  author of The Dinner
PartyIn Jonathan Dee's elegant and explosive new novel  Sugar Street  an unnamed male narrator
has hit the road with a large sum of cash stashed in an envelope under his car seat. Vigilantly
avoiding security cameras  he drives until he meets a city where his past is unlikely to track
him down. Renting a room from a less-than-stable landlady whose need for money outweighs her
desire to ask questions  he seems to have escaped his former self. But can he?In a story that
moves with swift dark humour and insight  Dee takes us through his narrator's attempt to
disavow his former life of privilege and enter a blameless new existence. Having opted out of
his material possessions and human connections  the pillars of his new self - simplicity 
kindness  above all invisibility - grow shakier as he butts up against the daily lives of his
neighbours in their politically divided working-class city. With the suspense of a crime
thriller and the grace of our best literary fiction  Dee unspools the details of our unlikely
hero's former life and his developing new one in a drumbeat roll up to a shocking final
act.Sugar Street is a leaner  more personal  but still uncannily timely look at the volatile
America of today. A risky  engrossing and surprisingly visceral story about a white man trying
to escape his own troubling footprint and start his life over.

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