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Box Hill
A story of low self-esteem
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Box Hill - A 2020 Spectator Book of the Year
'I took one look at him, and I saw what he really wanted.'
On the Sunday of his eighteenth birthday, in 1975, Colin takes a walk on Box Hill, a biker hang-out in Surrey. Timid, awkward, and very much out of his element, he accidentally trips over Ray, a biker taking a nap under a tree. Ray takes immediate control of the situation, and Colin moves in with him that night.
A sizzling, sometimes shocking, and strangely tragic love story between two men, Box Hill is a stunning novel of desire and domination by one of Britain's most accomplished writers.
'Mars-Jones's prose is exceptionally nimble, dry, humorously restrained, very English, with a little Nabokovian velvet too. He can describe more or less anything and make it interesting.'
- James Wood, London Review of Books
'A clever and subtle novel.'
- Max Liu, Financial Times
'Adam Mars-Jones has never needed to write at great length to convince readers of his talent ... Mars-Jones's latest work is a sliver of a novel that provides ample evidence of his prowess ... Box Hill is not a novel for the prudish, but it is a masterclass in authorial control ... Despite its diminutive length, it is rich with detail and complexity, and has plenty to demonstrate Mars-Jones's well-deserved place on any list of our best.'
- Alex Nurnberg, Sunday Times
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781922310101
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 28 April 2020
Country: Australia
Imprint: Scribe Publications
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 13.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 180g
Pages: 160
About the Author
Adam Mars-Jones's books include the novels Pilcrow and Cedilla, part of a million-word sequence, and the monograph Noriko Smiling, about a classic Japanese film. He writes regularly for the London Review of Books.
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