A Shock Booker Prize 'Joyous' SPECTATOR

'Joyous' SPECTATOR

This is to protect all women from feelings of jealousy and abandonment

indulgence in heavenly hedonism

and unlike anything else you've ever read' Esquire

written when he was already ill with HIV and in the midst of the moral panic surrounding the AIDS crisis

A Shock Booker Prize 'Joyous' SPECTATOR'A Shock inhabits the secret life of a city, its hidden energies. It dramatizes how patterns form and then disperse, how stories are made and relationships created remarkable' Colm Toibin, author of Brooklyn. 'Political, pertinent, spunky and funny, A Shock is a grand sweep of modern storytelling' June Caldwell, author of Room Little Darker In A Shock. A clutch of more or less loosely connected characters appear, disappear and reappear. They are all