The Angel and the Cuckoo
ISBN-13: 9780956815507
Author(s): Gerald Kersh
Subjects: FA, FBA, FBC
Publisher: London Books
Publisher Imprint: London Books
Publication Date: 15-09-2011
Format: Hardback
Availability: In stock
£11.99
About the book
Paul Auster, Ian McEwan and Don DeLillo all know that the city is a place of absurdity, and each of them have played with the form of their novels to accentuate and clarify the absurdities that city-dwellers face on a daily basis. Yet before any of them had their first novel published Gerald Kersh had written his last masterpiece The Angel And The Cuckoo. This is a novel of London that cuts back and forth in time through the Depression years between the two World Wars, following artists, criminals, lovers, singers and con-men as they each follow their singular obsessions.