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All Fur Coat Andrew Holmes

All Fur Coat By Andrew Holmes

All Fur Coat by Andrew Holmes


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Summary

Simon is an artist with an unhealthy obsession for an actress whose face is on all the posters on the tube advertising the new musical she's in. He likes to pick off the chewing-gum people so frequently stick on bits of her body to make her pure and perfect again.

All Fur Coat Summary

All Fur Coat by Andrew Holmes

A dazzling, pacy and sophisticated successor to SLEB. Greil is a failed lead guitarist turned unsuccessful freelance journalist with a coke habit, a penchant for gambling and a huge debt to pay. His debt collectors are thugs who have given him two days to come up with a grand. If he fails, he'll learn the hard way why he shouldn't ever have messed with them in the first place. Heidi is young, beautiful and terribly ambitious. She works as a lapdancer at a club called All Fur Coat. She'll do anything to become a model. Anything including, it seems, sleeping with the boss, the famous ex-footballer turned club-owner, and risking the antagonism of Fortune, Joy, Pleasure and all the other lapdancers. Simon is an artist with an unhealthy obsession for an actress whose face is on all the posters on the tube advertising the new musical she's in. He likes to pick off the chewing-gum people so frequently stick on bits of her body to make her pure and perfect again. He's working day and night on a triptych based on her and the pieces of gum he collects. ALL FUR COAT is the story of these three individuals, whose roller-coaster lives become dangerously and intricately intertwined as events spiral out of control towards the novel's inevitable dramatic conclusion.

All Fur Coat Reviews

Andrew Holmes is one of very few writers whose characters truly leap off the page. His novels are so spot-on it's scary. You don't read his prose ... you live it. - Matt Thorne

Showcasing a genius for the sort of venemous one-liners mere mortals can only dream of, Holmes explores London's chirpy underbelly - Mirror

A slick seedy affair that bears comparison with Martin Amis's LONDON FIELDS ... exceptionally visceral writing. - Scotland on Sunday

Fun and punchy - Big Issue

A compelling page-turner with a twisted sense of humour - Star

Darkly funny - Heat

About Andrew Holmes

Andrew Holmes's first novel SLEB was published to critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the WH Smith New Talent Award. ALL FUR COAT is his second novel.

Additional information

GOR004311332
9780340823637
0340823631
All Fur Coat by Andrew Holmes
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Hodder & Stoughton
2005-01-17
352
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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