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'Thorne's clear, deep, slightly sardonic style is a real find and eschews youthful show-offery to create a story with many levels, and characters whose frayed edges cast them in sharp relief against a background of a decaying tourist town. Tourist, the story of an attempt to shrug off all-town boredom by creating a futuristic nightclub, is an understated triumph' The Big Issue 'In clear and intelligent prose, Thorne portrays the sad sickliness of those who try to make a lifestyle out of a place that should only be visited. The subculture of this seaside town will hang around like the aroma of old chips' Gill Hornby, Times
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I wrote Tourist between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-three, while living in St. Andrews in Scotland. The story is set in Weston-Super-Mare, a seaside town near Bristol, and it's about a woman called Sarah who is involved with three men (her boss, a fourtysomething man called Paul, a wealthy seventy year old called Henry, and later, a student called Neil.) The book has been described as 'as sad as a Sunday and as sexy as a scar' by Julie Burchill, and an amoral comedy everywhere else. It is sad and it is funny too, and is told in the first person from Sarah's perspective. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
I wrote Tourist between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-three, while living in St. Andrews in Scotland. The story is set in Weston-Super-Mare, a seaside town near Bristol, and it's about a woman called Sarah who is involved with three men (her boss, a fourtysomething man called Paul, a wealthy seventy year old called Henry, and later, a student called Neil.) The book has been described as 'as sad as a Sunday and as sexy as a scar' by Julie Burchill, and an amoral comedy everywhere else. It is sad and it is funny too, and is told in the first person from Sarah's perspective. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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