- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Doubleday (1 Jan 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0385602308
- ISBN-13: 978-0385602303
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 15 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,181,550 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'In spite of its savage background, Creer's novel is rumbustiously entertaining...partly because Jimmy is an engaging and strangely innocent hero, and partly because of Creer's heady, Burgess-meets-Berkoff prose' Ross Gilfillan, Daily Mail 'Amid the devilish plot twists Creer makes room to flesh out his principals most satisfyingly, and establish a page-blurring pace which he underpins with a unique and oddly lush economy of language' Chris Power, The Times 'Jimmy Mack...is the eloquent narrator of Gareth Creer's third novel and, to a familiar story of big money, death and deception, he brings a strange poetry...this is a curious novel, and perhaps rare for the genre in its sensitivity, merging as it does the romanticism of crime with a wonder for the world about us' James Hopkin, The Times
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In 'Big Sky' Gareth Creer has crafted a piece that stands out in English Crime novels. Modern, hard edged and for want of a better word 'gritty'. 'Big Sky' is the tale of a Jimmy. A mute North East drug dealer who is a good kid at heart. With dreams of saving his heroin addict girl by retiring form the cut throat underworld to a care-free life in Spain Jimmy has to plan his retirement to perfection, no loose ends. Creer builds the characters and paints them so that one can't help but to sympathise with their plight. A band of misguided misfits standing together in the face of adversity, a family. More twists, bends and loops in the plot than a day out at Altern Towers. Written from the novel stance of the mute hero the narration is akin to listing to the mind of a desperate man. If 'Big Sky' hasn't been made into a film it should be.
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