- Paperback: 271 pages
- Publisher: Social Disease; First edition (14 Dec 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0955282942
- ISBN-13: 978-0955282942
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 12.7 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 328,213 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A series of stories charting London's psychogeographical hinterlands, Everyday marks an exciting debut. Glibly humourous and with a big, blackened heart beating throughout, Rourke - a leading light of 'The Off-Beat Generation' writers currently making the leap from web to print - delivers a stunning collection charting the tormented lives of everyday misanthropes - and the grubby blank-eyed pigeons that dwell in the gutter alongside them. --Shortlist Magazine
Sick, depraved and utterly mad, with no redeeming features whatsoever. I loved it. Stewart Home --Stewart Home
Everyday is a guide book of sorts: a dark, twisted, hysterical and macabre map of the twilight city which lurks underneath our nation s capital. This magnificent collection is living proof that the short story is alive and well and living in London. Tony O Neill, author of Digging The Vein, Seizure Wet Dreams, and Songs From the Shooting Gallery --Tony O'Neill
Sick, depraved and utterly mad, with no redeeming features whatsoever. I loved it. Stewart Home --Stewart Home
Everyday is a guide book of sorts: a dark, twisted, hysterical and macabre map of the twilight city which lurks underneath our nation s capital. This magnificent collection is living proof that the short story is alive and well and living in London. Tony O Neill, author of Digging The Vein, Seizure Wet Dreams, and Songs From the Shooting Gallery --Tony O'Neill
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Everyday takes the reader for a dawdle into the moribund heart of London. This extraordinary collection of stories - featuring pigeons, putrefying exotic dancers, lost loves, boredom, cliché, lacklustre dérives, banality, sexual violence, the male gaze, a murderous acquisition of a tortuously blank book, and the sad demise of the number 38 bus - reinvents reality, that is at once sordid, hilarious and tender.
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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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cat-like grace,
This review is from: Everyday (Paperback)
Rourke manages to infuse Beckettian treadmill-like bleakness, repetition and humour into an anonymous London milieu of pigeons, photocopying machines, bus journeys and canals. A striking debut.
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Great stuff,
This review is from: Everyday (Paperback)
An encouraging first collection of bleached and bleak urban tales. Looking forward to the next one.
3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Great read,
This review is from: Everyday (Paperback)
This is an interesting debut that deals with the questions fiction throws our way and, more importantly, the reasons why it is written in the first place. `Everyday' is writing about writing: its difficulties and transparencies, the everyday repetitions it mimics, the voices we hear. And, rather refreshingly, it is a pared down collection of modern happenings and incidences that is remarkably fluid and easy to read.
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