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'An original and fascinating concept that'll keep you hooked and turning the pages' Sunday Post'Expertly done' The Times'[A] compelling, original novel' IndependentIn Jonathan Dee's explosive novel, an unnamed male narrator has hit the road with a large sum of cash stashed under his car seat. Vigilantly avoiding security cameras, he drives until he meets a city where his past is unlikely to track him down.
Renting a room from a less-than-stable landlady whose need for money outweighs her desire to ask questions, he seems to have escaped his former self. But can he?In a story that moves with swift dark humour and insight, Dee takes us through his narrator's attempt to disavow his former life of privilege and enter a blameless new existence. Having opted out of his material possessions and human connections, the pillars of his new self - simplicity, kindness, and above all invisibility - grow shakier as he butts up against the daily lives of his neighbours in their politically divided working-class city.
Sugar Street is a risky, engrossing and visceral story about a white man trying to escape his own troubling footprint and start his life over.
Sugar Street
Cette bonne vieille idée de partir loin, refaire sa vie, avec un petit pactole sous le siège avant de la bagnole, menée de main de maître par un scrutateur corrosif et désinvolte, Jonathan Dee.
Un regard sociologique, des fulgurances banales et géniales, l'acuité quant à notre dépendance au numérique, c'est le globe américain qui tourne sous le prisme panoptique de l'homme pris dans l'étau de la fuite.
Disparaître pour réapparaître dans sa plus pure vérité nue ?
Refaire surface.