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OK, I know you guys don't really read much, especially things published this year but I'm going to recommend pic related anyway.

It's a pretty compelling story about fatherhood and loss and the passage of time and how a man reacts to it, and it's also a kind of superhero story about a man who dresses up and fights crime. It's sort of like if Malcolm Lowry and Paul Theroux and Grant Morisson all got together to write a novel

There's some really moving stuff in there and if any of you guys ever wonder why it is you don't always get on with your dads, there may be something in there for you.

It's a quality read lads, you should buy it. I read the whole thing in one go and I wanted more.

>> No.6240321

>>6240313
go to bed nick

>> No.6240327

who the fuck wants to read that

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6240332

>>6240321

10/10 response

>> No.6240376

>John le Carre's son

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6240392

>>6240327

Quite a lot of people. most of them liked it too.

>> No.6240414

>>6240392
Hey OP

>> No.6240429

>>6240414

Oh no I posted in the thread I started. How awful of me.

I'd probably have posted more if captcha wasn't such an unmentionable cunt at the moment.

>> No.6240697

>>6240313
I'd be interested in it actually. It's nice to see people on /lit/ posting something contemporary for instance. Thanks mate-

>> No.6240787

>>6240697
>It's nice to see people on /lit/ posting something contemporary for instance.

It rarely gets any traction, so people rarely bother I think.

It's easier to just have threads where people sperg out over which philosopher they'd rather suck off.

>> No.6240834

>>6240787
Yeah, it's a shame. I think it's also syntomatic of the literary world's tendency to just curl in a ball and gaze at its own -past- navel, falling into a loop of shitty, analogic rewriting that refuses to acknowledge everything past 1950.

>> No.6240865

>>6240834

While that applies to /lit/, I'd be wary of saying it applies to the whole world of literature, which is often fascinated by novelty at the expense of quality.

Harkaway's other book Angelmaker is pretty cool as well, kind of a New Weird detective story.

>> No.6240880

>>6240865
To be fair, I was talking about my country's /lit/ scene, which IS stuck in some kind of alternative reality eternally stuck in circa 1965

I kinda envy the anglophone scene, even the meaningless fascination with novelty.

Thanks for the recs though, his books are really cheap so I think I'll get them.