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(5) | Keine | Nick Stringer is a rookie lawyer but what he really wants is to run his own record label. His dream seems one step closer when old family friend and businessman Mel Greenberg offers to bankroll him.Avery Cross is a junior reporter desperately searching for the story that's going to make her name. Avery thinks there's more to Mel Greenberg than meets the eye and that uncovering the truth about him might just be her ticket to the big time.Nick, Mel and Avery's lives converge against the backdrop of London's underworld where glamour, crime & greed party side by side. It doesn't take long before Nick begins to realise that if an offer looks too good to be true it probably is. In a city rocked by corruption and excess, one of them is going to learn that sometimes in life you get more than you bargained for.Jukebox is Saira Viola's brilliant full-length debut novel."A great amount has been done in literature over the years but every now and then someone comes along and shows us a completely different approach to the ancient art of the scribe . So hail Saira Viola and discover her twisted and beautiful imagination. Literature needs Saira Viola . Her writing is sharp direct and gripping." -Benjamin Zephaniah"A fresh faced voice to herald in the apocalypse .Posers beware .This is the real deal." -Jonathan Shaw"Injecting musical prose into a dying genre and one sorely needing a shot in the arm .What Viola has proven is the great novel is not incompatible with virtuosic poetics." -James Browning Kepple"I enjoyed this piece's in-your-face quality." -Robin Wyatt Dunn"Guy Ritchie meets Martin Amis.......stunning." -Betsy Reavley"Jukebox is a dirty, delinquent satire with plenty of scabrous humour, but it also holds up a mirror to a society obsessed with the wrong kind of celebrity. .....Jukebox is a compelling crime caper." -Crime Fiction Lover"Jukebox is a witty riotous story populated by larger-than-life characters in EC1" -The Clerkenwell Post"Jukebox is unique - overflows with pazazz." - Heathcote Williams, International Times… (mehr) |
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Keine ▾Buchbeschreibungen Nick Stringer is a rookie lawyer but what he really wants is to run his own record label. His dream seems one step closer when old family friend and businessman Mel Greenberg offers to bankroll him.Avery Cross is a junior reporter desperately searching for the story that's going to make her name. Avery thinks there's more to Mel Greenberg than meets the eye and that uncovering the truth about him might just be her ticket to the big time.Nick, Mel and Avery's lives converge against the backdrop of London's underworld where glamour, crime & greed party side by side. It doesn't take long before Nick begins to realise that if an offer looks too good to be true it probably is. In a city rocked by corruption and excess, one of them is going to learn that sometimes in life you get more than you bargained for.Jukebox is Saira Viola's brilliant full-length debut novel."A great amount has been done in literature over the years but every now and then someone comes along and shows us a completely different approach to the ancient art of the scribe . So hail Saira Viola and discover her twisted and beautiful imagination. Literature needs Saira Viola . Her writing is sharp direct and gripping." -Benjamin Zephaniah"A fresh faced voice to herald in the apocalypse .Posers beware .This is the real deal." -Jonathan Shaw"Injecting musical prose into a dying genre and one sorely needing a shot in the arm .What Viola has proven is the great novel is not incompatible with virtuosic poetics." -James Browning Kepple"I enjoyed this piece's in-your-face quality." -Robin Wyatt Dunn"Guy Ritchie meets Martin Amis.......stunning." -Betsy Reavley"Jukebox is a dirty, delinquent satire with plenty of scabrous humour, but it also holds up a mirror to a society obsessed with the wrong kind of celebrity. .....Jukebox is a compelling crime caper." -Crime Fiction Lover"Jukebox is a witty riotous story populated by larger-than-life characters in EC1" -The Clerkenwell Post"Jukebox is unique - overflows with pazazz." - Heathcote Williams, International Times ▾Bibliotheksbeschreibungen Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. ▾Beschreibung von LibraryThing-Mitgliedern
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Straight from the land of tea and crumpets and with crunchy, punchy—point, counterpoint stylized English prose Author Saira Viola takes you on a deliciously seedy journey into the world of London’s underbelly.
From its outrageously profane opening this story grabs you by the neck and it doesn’t let go. Peppered with pop-culture references and a gallery of characters you will not soon forget (hey Mimi—call me darling) the story moves along to the beat of a too-cool-for-school soundtrack hence the tittle of the book, and I do concur with the jab at Simon Cowell; that punter destroyed the musical landscape with his shameless promotion of banal pop, and also kudos for the uppercut at certain celebs who became ‘stars’ just by doing a triple xxx feature. There’s also a stab at the Rolling Stones for stealing the blues and making a living at it for almost a century.
This is cool and dangerous Britannia, buddy, strap-on for a hell of a ride as this book has all the hallmarks of a great read: Grit, wit and style to burn.
So, what you waiting for lad? Grab a cuppa and go read Jukebox.
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