Tell your friends about this item:
Barking Circus
Douglas Thompson
Barking Circus
Douglas Thompson
In the early days of the 21st century, an 'Unknown Executive' is killed by a passing car near Park Circus, the architectural office quarter of Glasgow. From his briefcase spill a series of mysterious and outlandish story fragments which blow across surrounding districts over subsequent days, each found and read by a diverse range of local characters. A far future Britain overtaken by rising sea levels, a near-future Scotland in which a nuclear accident has displaced the lowland populations to new experimental settlements in the north, an America in which NASA has begun a mining colony on a distant planet to the detriment of its hapless alien inhabitants. Each of these narratives do little to help the police establish the dead man 's identity, but point instead to a higher reality, a series of metaphorical futures that throw light on the enduring enigmas of human life and love: the struggle for freedom against the forces of tyranny and decay, the adverse effects of social-exclusion at the personal and societal level, and the transformative power of art.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | November 12, 2020 |
ISBN13 | 9783945795859 |
Publishers | Zagava Books |
Pages | 342 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 19 mm · 503 g |
Language | English |
More by Douglas Thompson
Others have also bought
See all of Douglas Thompson ( e.g. Paperback Book , Hardcover Book and Book )