EAN: 9781472151971

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'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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