Redefining Victory: A Post-Truth Novel

by Anthony Stevens

Overview

A middle-aged man leaves his wife for a younger woman... or is it to 'find out who he really is'? You've heard it all before, of course - but not like this! REDEFINING VICTORY takes a banal situation and transforms it into something harshly comic, strangely surreal and disconcertingly archetypal. How? By making the characters talk and think entirely in clichés - rather like robots in some future experiment in AI. But the setting is now, and everything in the novel is so familiar - the characters, the situations, the words used - that it becomes paradoxically alien, weird and even, at times, a little grotesque. Both as an entertaining satire on 'middle England' and as a tragicomic vision of the emotional, intellectual and spiritual bankruptcy of people whose language does their thinking - and their feeling - for them, REDEFINING VICTORY will make you ask: Do we all (sometimes) mistake the right phrase for the raw truth?And it's a must for anyone who loves the English language, revealing its world-beating richness in clichés, platitudes, euphemisms and hackneyed phrases. You'll be amazed at how many expressions there are that we really ought to avoid!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780995593909
Publisher:	Silenos Books
Publication date:	06/21/2017
Pages:	178
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.99(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

Anthony Stevens has taught literature and theatre in universities and schools. He has written, devised and directed many plays, always experimenting and trying to break new ground with the next project. He is the author of RE-IMAGINING YOUR BODY, a practical course in enhanced body-awareness using actors' exercises for non-actors, and of HOW PLAYS TELL STORIES, about the nature of drama. This is his first novel. The next will be about the art world. It will also be experimental - which means, of course, that it will also be very different, because the one thing he doesn't want to do in life is repeat himself (he had enough of doing that as a teacher). He considers very himself fortunate to live both in Cambridge, England, and Patmos, Greece.