About this book
Chain-smoking alcoholics, warring academics, gothic stalkers and aspiring writers are just some of the visitors that browse the mysterious library at the heart of Sean O'Brien's fiction debut. Idlers and idolisers alike can be referenced, in body or in text, among the crepuscular alcoves and dim staircases of this seemingly unassuming building. The secret to a family curse, a dog-eared first edition of Stevens Harmonium, the gruesome fate of a feminist literary theorist - all are available to simply take down from the shelf, as are the catalogue of genres and subject areas that O'Brien himself effortlessly deploys: from gothic horror to English pastoral, Critical Theory to Cold War noir. Take a walk between these shelves. Crack the spine and the blow the dust off lives unlived because, so far, they are unread. Become, if you dare, as trapped as them...
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Table of contents
- Notes
- Contents
- I Cannot Cross Over
- It Follows Therefore
- The Custodian
- Three Fevers
- The Cricket Match a Green Lock
- Sylvie: A Romance
- Features of the Text
- Close to You
- Kiss Me Deadly on the Museum Island
- Not in Gateshead Any More
- In the Silence Room
- Once Again Assembled Here
- Behind the Rain
- In the Duchy
- About the Author
