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If This Is Home
If This Is Home | Stuart Evers
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A dazzling first novel from the critically acclaimed author of Ten Stories About Smoking Mark Wilkinson has three names. He left his own behind in the rainy north of England. US immigration know him as Joe Novak. And at the Valhalla, the mysterious complex in Vegas where he sells lofty ambition and dark desires, he goes by Mr Jones. Since the age of eighteen, Mark has been running away, and hard. Away from everything that is flat and dull and ordinary: his market town. Away from disappointment: his vanished mother, his broken father. And away from heartbreak. Bethany Wilder, beautiful goth, carnival queen, partner in dreams, tragic ghost, never made it with him to America. He's thirty now and again it's time to flee - in the opposite direction, towards home. With shades of J. G. Ballard, Murakami, and Joseph O'Neill, this is an inventive and emotional novel about the power of dreams to destroy, of memory to distort, and of courage, ultimately, to heal.
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readingjedi
If This Is Home | Stuart Evers
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Mehso-so

Slightly uneven, a little disjointed & kinda unsure of what it wants to be, when it finally hits its brief stride it is fairly engaging but it gets there by going round some pretty strange houses. There's a fair bit of stuff that seems pointless, unexplained, unresolved or just a little ridiculous. Like why did the guy have 3 names and why the emphasis on it? An OK read - not great, but not bad either.

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readingjedi
If This Is Home | Stuart Evers
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Starting this one tonight. With thanks to #netgalley for this book.

Have no recollection of requesting this & have no idea what it's about!