- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Serpent's Tail; First Edition - Paperback edition (21 May 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1852424389
- ISBN-13: 978-1852424381
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 13.4 x 1.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,733,477 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Ian Proctor has problems - nine months after following a friend to London his squat is about to be evicted, he is about to lose his part-time job and an old friend over twenty years is embroiled in a failed scam. Disturbing too is the violence around him and Ian embarks upon an adventure which promises much but is threatened by his former associations.
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Nine months after following a friend to London Ian Proctor isn't happy: the squat is about to be evicted, he's about to lose his part-time job, and his friend of over twenty-two years is embroiled in a scam that clearly hasn't worked. Nothing is secure. More disturbing is the violence that surrounds them; a man thrown from the back of a bus, and two thugs a little too handy with their fists and paint-stripper. Following a bicycle messenger through central London, Ian embarks on a more promising life which is ultimately threatened by his former associations. A powerful novel exploring the end of a friendship, and the damage caused by seemingly inconsequential truths, misreadings, and outright lies.
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A New Classic
31 Mar 2005
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If you liked BRUISER you'll like this book even more, because despite everything I think Richard House is an Englishman at heart, and the descriptions of Chicagoland crime in BRUISER always seemed a little false, if wonderfully so, like Michael Powell talking about America. In THE UNINVITED he is on his own home turf and the advantage is decidedly his. That said, naming his hero "Procter" made me think all the way through the book that he, Procter, should have been a proctologist, but insetad he has one of the world's ghastliest and seediest occupations, rent boy, that is, one who collects rent, and then when that falls through, he takes up the more romantic job of bike messenger. It's still seedy, but as House describes it, it's wonderfully sexy and makes a man forget his troubles, in Procter's case a withered sort of arm--really an affliction out of Nathaniel Hawthorne--an affliction of the soul, symbolically transmuted to his body.
It wouldn't be Richard House without a strong gay sex plot, and here it is again, as Ian Procter falls for a fellow biker called Peter. The two of them have at it as though the Wolfenden Act was just signed on Tuesday. Born in Cyprus, House has a sensual languour and challenge that escapes many of his UK colleagues, and when Iam's friend Malcom winds up dead, his body at the bottom of a staircase, readers with long memories may call up to mind the Gothic splendors of the old Paramount ghost classic THE UNINVITED (1944) in which swift deaths were dealt out as impartially as Fate. House's book is a splendid addition to the bookshelf of crime, fear, and the f--kedupness of things in general.
It wouldn't be Richard House without a strong gay sex plot, and here it is again, as Ian Procter falls for a fellow biker called Peter. The two of them have at it as though the Wolfenden Act was just signed on Tuesday. Born in Cyprus, House has a sensual languour and challenge that escapes many of his UK colleagues, and when Iam's friend Malcom winds up dead, his body at the bottom of a staircase, readers with long memories may call up to mind the Gothic splendors of the old Paramount ghost classic THE UNINVITED (1944) in which swift deaths were dealt out as impartially as Fate. House's book is a splendid addition to the bookshelf of crime, fear, and the f--kedupness of things in general.
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