Nutcase

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Aidan Wilson's misfortune is to be hard as nails
In this darkly hilarious and seriously horrifying book Williams tells the story of Aidan, a vigilante and young offender from one of Sheffield's roughest estates.
At breakneck speed, we see Aidan's world unravel as he goes from hero to outlaw, fighting against all-comers and the circumstances he can't escape. But is he a victim or architect of his own demise?
A brutal and breathtaking account of living with violence in the English city.
There are lots of crime novels, but Nutcase is something different: a novel about crime which isn't interested in the conventions of crime fiction. The novel is based on a specific Icelandic saga: the Saga of Grettir the Strong.
Nutcase explores the lives of people who live with violence on a day-to-day basis - how it shapes and distorts their lives, and ultimately becomes part of the normality that they live with.

About the author

Tony Williams’s All the Bananas I’ve Never Eaten won the Saboteur Award for best short story collection. His poetry includes The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street and The Midlands. He lived in Sheffield for more than a decade before moving to rural Northumberland. He works in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Summary

In this darkly hilarious and seriously horrifying book Williams tells the story of Aidan, a vigilante and young offender from one of Sheffield’s roughest estates. At breakneck speed, we see Aidan’s world unravel as he goes from hero to outlaw, fighting against all-comers and the circumstances he can’t escape.

Report

A brutal, funny and heart-rending book, it hurtles towards its fate with unremitting pace, energy and cheek.
Isy Suttie

Product details

• Authors: Tony Williams, Williams Tony
• Publisher: Salt Publishing Limited
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2017
• EAN: 9781784631062
• ISBN: 978-1-78463-106-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 242 g
• Series: Salt Modern Fiction
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Sagas, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Englische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, Humorous fiction, Satirical fiction and parodies, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Icelandic and Old Norse sagas, Adventure / action fiction, Crime and / or mystery fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems, saga;vigilante;Sheffield;Grettir the Strong;crime;comedy