The new novel by Birkenhead-born Nathan O'Hagan, author of The World is (Not) a Cold Dead Place, turns the temperature down to absolute zero in a thriller that stalks the darkest corners of the male psyche.
On the streets of Liverpool, three lives - a young skateboarder, a steroid-crazed bodybuilder and a family man with a dark, troubled profession - are about to overlap in a dance of frustration, humiliation and murder.
This noir journey through bars, gyms, retirement homes, gay clubs and footballers' mansions leaves a trail of suffocating guilt and psychosexual violence that seems all too real. In exploring 'crises of masculinity', O'Hagan trenches psychological depths with a worldly cynicism worthy of Camus, Jim Thompson or Bret Easton Ellis - and transcends the limits of the crime genre as we know it.
Praise for The World is (Not) a Cold Dead Place
'Nathan O'Hagan is a very talented writer' Kevin Sampson (author, Awaydays)
'Dark, violent, funny, shitty, moving' James Brown (Journalist, radio presenter and author of Above Head Height)
'A great debut' Russ Litten (author, Kingdom)
The new novel by Birkenhead-born Nathan O'Hagan, author of The World is (Not) a Cold Dead Place, turns the temperature down to absolute zero in a thriller that stalks the darkest corners of the male psyche.
On the streets of Liverpool, three lives - a young skateboarder, a steroid-crazed bodybuilder and a family man with a dark, troubled profession - are about to overlap in a dance of frustration, humiliation and murder.
This noir journey through bars, gyms, retirement homes, gay clubs and footballers' mansions leaves a trail of suffocating guilt and psychosexual violence that seems all too real. In exploring 'crises of masculinity', O'Hagan trenches psychological depths with a worldly cynicism worthy of Camus, Jim Thompson or Bret Easton Ellis - and transcends the limits of the crime genre as we know it.
Praise for The World is (Not) a Cold Dead Place
'Nathan O'Hagan is a very talented writer' Kevin Sampson (author, Awaydays)
'Dark, violent, funny, shitty, moving' James Brown (Journalist, radio presenter and author of Above Head Height)
'A great debut' Russ Litten (author, Kingdom)
Out Of The City
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Out Of The City
228
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780993481161 |
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| Publisher: | Armley Press |
| Publication date: | 02/17/2017 |
| Pages: | 228 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.52(d) |