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These Demented Lands Alan Warner

These Demented Lands By Alan Warner

These Demented Lands by Alan Warner


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Summary

An aircrash investigator haunts the hinterlands of an island. A woman makes landfall on the island, and DJ Cormorant is trying to organise a rave on the adjacent airstrip. This work features twisted characters - The Arganout, the Knife Sharpener, The Devil's Advocate and others - converging for one final Saturday night at the Drome Hotel.

These Demented Lands Summary

These Demented Lands by Alan Warner

'A sequel to his acclaimed debut Morvern Callar, These Demented Lands, confirms that Alan Warner boasts an extravagant talent... This novel is set on a Scottish island that contains a variety of weird landmarks and an hallucinogenic cast of characters - including a DJ who wants to set up the rave to end all raves, a visitor whose job is to assess candidates for sainthood and the wonderfully unfazed heroine, Morvern Callar' - Harry Ritchie, Mail on Sunday

A powerful, hilarious and original novel about the intersection of lives in the rough and ready communities and wild landscapes of the Scottish Highlands.

These Demented Lands Reviews

Warner's second novel is a classic like his first one... glorious... powerful * Independent *
A moving evocation of post- apocalyptic rave culture in the West Highlands of contemporary Scotland * Independent on Sunday *
Prodigious powers of invention... marvellously dynamic prose... brilliant visual imagination... A greatly ambitious novel * Times Literary Supplement *
Think of the inventiveness of Iain Banks filtered through the lurid lens of a David Lynch, with a soundtrack from Verve and Bob Dylan... These Demented Lands is fiction 'on the Outer Rim of everything'. Rave on, child * Scotsman *
With a style that fuses poetic discipline with the riff-based scat of a hedonist * Esquire *

About Alan Warner

Alan Warner is the author of six other novels: Morvern Callar, The Sopranos, The Man Who Walks, The Worms Can Carry Me To Heaven, The Stars in the Bright Sky, which was longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize, and The Deadman's Pedal. He is Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University.

Additional information

GOR003219250
9780099577911
0099577917
These Demented Lands by Alan Warner
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
1998-02-05
224
Winner of Encore Award 1998
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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