- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks (6 Aug 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0751525596
- ISBN-13: 978-0751525595
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
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- #93 in Books > Fiction > Horror > Parodies & Satires
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Matchless detectives Bryant and May return from Christopher Fowler's Darkest Day, tracking bizarre acts of violence through Soho at the height of a heatwave. Meanwhile two hired killers, one black, one white, swap smart post-Pulp Fiction dialogue and film executive Richard Tyler's life turns into a nightmare after a very strange visit to the washroom. Midas has the touch, Glory brings glamour and death in her wake and Judy is enchanted. Barbara simply wants to save Richard who is determined to make a success of his life even if he has died trying. Discovering how these characters tie together is just one of the pleasures of a book that, from the cover inward, is strikingly offbeat.
So what is Soho Black? An ingenious post-modern horror novel? A satirical black comedy for the media age? Or the book of the imaginary film of the same title? The answer is all three, wrapped in an ultra-hip plot, as mind-bending as Christopher Priest's The Affirmation or Christopher Evans' In Limbo. Yet, lent particular credibility by the fact that Christopher Fowler is a director of a real film promotion company in Soho, the surreal story is told with a sharply authentic eye for character and location. With more movie references than an issue of Variety, and as much graphic and disturbing imagery as Clive Barker's The Damnation Game, this nightmarish inside view of the UK film industry's movers and shakers is quite simply begging to be made into a cult classic movie. --Gary S. Dalkin --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I read this book not knowing what to expect! I was so impressed with this man's writing! I rate him much, much higher than Stephen King or any other horror/thriller writer. The characters were so real. By the way it was written it should definately be a film or some kind of 4 part one off! I can't say enough about it, if you love thrillers/horror this is definately something you won't want to put down. It was so good I read it twice and have since then read 3 other books by Christopher Fowler which are of equal brilliance!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As a fond reader of Christopher Fowler, since he is one of the very finest writers of what London is really like to live in, he has in SOHO BLACK managed to create the most convincing portrait of my favourite bit of the city. From the too familiar bars and private clubs (I know I've been on that terrace), through to the screening rooms, the edit suites and coffee shops, Fowler manages to weave together the failings, insanities and mysteries of a memorable cast of Soho characters. It was one of those books where I kept expecting to find myself in the midst of the action, caught up in the long hot Summer in Soho, where the extraordinary is unremarkable and anything does happen. Get the book, sit in Old Compton Street and try and work out where the fiction ends and the reality begins.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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a superb surreal horror thriller , both scary and comic . It shows soho in all its glory and decay . an addictive pleasure . This is my first meeting with Bryant and May but I intend to read more . A real love of london .
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Andrex is a better read.
I have just read this book and wished that I hadn't. It is a post modernist nightmare/horror that is overly pretentious. The characterisation was hardly believable. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Joe Public
Blacker than Night
The ideal place to read this book is on a London-bound train from somewhere wholesome in the country. Read more
Published on 21 July 2007 by Linda Jones
His best yet
What a spinner! The industry machinations were interesting, but if I wanted to know all about the film world I would buy non-fiction. Read more
Published on 17 July 2000 by "matt_white71"
Fantastic!
Well worth reading this book is full of all the intrigue,lies and bad taste you would expect in Soho In a world were anything goes and can happen this book surely goes there, deep... Read more
Published on 28 May 2000 by Damian Fry
A perfect representation of the modern world...
This is one of Fowler's best works to date. He represents a modern "business" culture as it is.. Read more
Published on 20 Feb 2000 by willow1014@hotmail.com
So (ho) Conceited
This book stats like some post-modern middle-class London whinge-fest. You know, kind of like Rancid Aliminium. Read more
Published on 18 Jan 2000 by doctor@spong.demon.co.uk
A Crash Landing ..............
Not having read any previous Fowler works, I was coaxed into purchasing 'Soho Black' purely on the strengths of the book sleeve and summary, which, presented themselves rather... Read more
Published on 23 Nov 1998
I have chosen to become a man that will forever be in black.
As I have said, after reading the latest work from Christopher Fowler I have chosen to become a man that will forever be seen in black. Read more
Published on 19 Oct 1998
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