Playing possum /
Davey, Kevin, 1956-
Playing possum / - 185 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. - Goldsmiths Prize .
Fleeing from a violent incident in London in 1922, pursued by police, Tom spends a night in the Duke of Cumberland Hotel in Whitstable. Demobilised soldiers hold a meeting below his window and a silent movie is being shot on the seafront. Davey draws on local history and literature, songs, films and artwork from the period to produce a novel Eliot himself would have enjoyed.
Shortlisted for Goldsmiths Prize 2017.
0957363583 9780957363588: No price 9780957363588
2017433869
Poets, American--Fiction.
English fiction--21st century
Whitstable (England)--Fiction.
823.92 DAV
Playing possum / - 185 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. - Goldsmiths Prize .
Fleeing from a violent incident in London in 1922, pursued by police, Tom spends a night in the Duke of Cumberland Hotel in Whitstable. Demobilised soldiers hold a meeting below his window and a silent movie is being shot on the seafront. Davey draws on local history and literature, songs, films and artwork from the period to produce a novel Eliot himself would have enjoyed.
Shortlisted for Goldsmiths Prize 2017.
0957363583 9780957363588: No price 9780957363588
2017433869
Poets, American--Fiction.
English fiction--21st century
Whitstable (England)--Fiction.
823.92 DAV