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Jason Donald Choke Chain (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Choke Chain
- Publication Name
- Choke Chain
- Title
- Choke Chain
- Format
- Uk-B Format Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0099527065
- EAN
- 9780099527060
- ISBN
- 9780099527060
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Year
- 2018
- Release Date
- 18/01/2018
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 7.8in
- Item Width
- 5.1in
- Item Weight
- 9.2 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Topic
- Family Life, Literary
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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'An exceptional debut' Independent Alex is twelve, and he lives with his younger brother and his parents in a dirt-poor white neighbourhood in 1980s South Africa. He and Kevin are trying to grow up, while their mother, Grace, is simply trying to keep them safe. Apart from the usual lessons of childhood, the boys are finding out about deceit, petty crime and casual violence, and the person that's teaching them is their father. A devious, self-centred, volatile man, Bruce Thorne sees the world as a battleground where the winner is the one who throws the first punch. Ruling the family through fear, it is only when he abandons them for a teenage lover that their problems really begin. Exposing the rotten, insidious patterns of fathering that most societies still ignore, Choke Chain shows two boys struggling to find steady ground in a disintegrating household. Watching quietly as their mother diminishes in the black light of her husband, they learn that not all adults are right and true - that some have evil bred, or beaten, into them. Opening with a thunderstorm and hail 'the size of apricots', this extraordinary first novel is a series of emotional storms and aftershocks, with any brightness on the horizon shadowed by gathering dark. Beautifully written and intensely moving, the novel builds to the drama of its conclusion- the turbulence turning to frenzy and clearing, finally, to some redemptive light.
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Publisher
Penguin Random House
ISBN-10
0099527065
ISBN-13
9780099527060
eBay Product ID (ePID)
28038259493
Product Key Features
Book Title
Choke Chain
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Family Life, Literary
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.8in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
9.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pr6104.O54
Reviews
" Choke Chain completely and triumphantly defines its own territory - the novel's restraint concealing its building power and its huge compassion." --Alan Warner, "His writing is clear and ungilded as he captures the experience of growing up under big African skies, and shows us Alex's world in all its freshness and promise . . . This is an exceptional debut." -- Independent, "An uncompromising piece about the lives of impoverished white South Africans, written in a style which owed something to Raymond Carver's laconic, chiselled sentences." -- Scotsman, Reads like a dream, races along and open-heartedly reveals one corrupt road by which boys should not become men., "Reads like a dream, races along and open-heartedly reveals one corrupt road by which boys should not become men." --Janice Galloway
Copyright Date
2018
Dewey Decimal
823.92
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
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