Review
Ian McEwan immediately springs to mind ... This is a writer who can write and has something to say ... reminds me of the best writing of Iain Banks. --Golgonooza
An impressive piece of work ... original, imaginative, well crafted, funny and affecting by turns. --Martin Ouvry, The Literary Consultancy
... writes with great confidence, vigour and creative energy ... modern, hip and edgy. --Cornerstones
Elegant, thoughtful, clever, very readable and highly original. --John Paxton Sheriff, Writers' News
`Vivid, cerebral.' --The Times
`Rich, dense and lathered in knowing pop-culture references, The Venturi Effect plays like Brideshead Revisited reworked by Iain Banks. It's a caustic and often funny book which belongs firmly in the literate, questioning tradition of John Fowles.' --Eddie Harrison, The LIST
`Andrew Linzee Gordon is not afraid to tackle the big questions. And for any man who has ever been obsessively in love with a beautiful woman, this novel is for you.'
--Rowan Pelling, 2004 Man Booker Prize JUDGE
An impressive piece of work ... original, imaginative, well crafted, funny and affecting by turns. --Martin Ouvry, The Literary Consultancy
... writes with great confidence, vigour and creative energy ... modern, hip and edgy. --Cornerstones
Elegant, thoughtful, clever, very readable and highly original. --John Paxton Sheriff, Writers' News
`Vivid, cerebral.' --The Times
`Rich, dense and lathered in knowing pop-culture references, The Venturi Effect plays like Brideshead Revisited reworked by Iain Banks. It's a caustic and often funny book which belongs firmly in the literate, questioning tradition of John Fowles.' --Eddie Harrison, The LIST
`Andrew Linzee Gordon is not afraid to tackle the big questions. And for any man who has ever been obsessively in love with a beautiful woman, this novel is for you.'
--Rowan Pelling, 2004 Man Booker Prize JUDGE
Product Description
After you die it takes seven years for you to go to Heaven. Give or take the odd minute or two. This girl I loved told me that, seven years ago, just before she went and topped herself. Now I'm praying for her sake that it's true.
So begins Thomas, The Venturi Effect's faithless narrator, who is lying face-up, freezing and abandoned on the wind-swept tower of a Scottish castle. In his hand is a telescope, with which he hopes to discover, in a minute or two, the truth about his girlfriend's salvation...
Powerful and disturbing, this astonishing first novel leads you on a compelling and thought-provoking journey, on the trail of God's footprints, towards love, loss and letting go.
So begins Thomas, The Venturi Effect's faithless narrator, who is lying face-up, freezing and abandoned on the wind-swept tower of a Scottish castle. In his hand is a telescope, with which he hopes to discover, in a minute or two, the truth about his girlfriend's salvation...
Powerful and disturbing, this astonishing first novel leads you on a compelling and thought-provoking journey, on the trail of God's footprints, towards love, loss and letting go.
