The story of a group called Triangle from the Black Country. It is the early 1990s and Karl is their brilliant and troubled singer, torn between chasing fame and desiring oblivion. As the band make waves through Manchester, London, Dublin and Amsterdam, Karl starts to come apart.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Devastatingly good novel, 4 Jan 2001

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Two of the reader-reviewers... get hold of the wrong end of the stick... This is not a non-fiction account of life on the road with a struggling indie band. It's a novel, for ****'s sake. You know, fiction. That stuff they make up. And it's damn good fiction. The positive reader-reviews are spot on: it's a perceptive and often dark trawl through the psyche, as well as through the grimmer parts of the West Midlands. It's also extremely funny, in parts. One of the best novels published in the UK as the 20th century drew to a close. I'm looking forward to Lane's next novel.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wow, what a beautiful, beautiful book., 25 Aug 2001

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I really liked the Lane short stories that i'd read, so when I heard he'd written a novel I was very excited. Then I realized it was about a rock band. The only thing I hate more than fiction about writers is fiction about rock musicians, they both seem equally narcissistic, I don't know why, maybe because all writers are frustrated rock musicians. Anyway I bought the book and it blew me away. Right from the start. This is such a wonderful book. Joel Lane is the antidote to any of the trendy, ironic, cold-hearted, clever-clever writing that seems to be everywhere. His writing is deeply felt; romantic but real.I can't tell you how much I love this book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Music and darkness, 24 May 2009

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Any urban fiction fans that also have a thing for the late 80s-early 90s Brit music scene should get a hold of this book. In the end I felt as if the band Triangle had actually existed and I had actually heard their songs and been to their gigs. Describing music through words is no easy task but Joel Lave pulls it off wonderfully, combining it with a dark fiction twist in a post-industrial Midlands setting. Pairings like that can easily go wrong, but in this case, the result is hauntingly brilliant.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Totally gripping
I picked this book up while on holiday - someone had left it behind at the rented holiday cottage I was staying at. I glanced at the first couple of pages, and was hooked. Read more

Published on 13 Jun 2007 by S. Denney

5.0 out of 5 stars A Surprising Novel - A Surprising Author
Joel Lane, for those of us who spend their lives trawling the Best New and Year's Best collections of horror stories, is a superb writer. Read more

Published on 24 Oct 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars A moving account of a band's attempt to find success.
Joel Lane has created a brutal, desperate but brilliant story of a Birmingham band and the difficult love affair between two of the band members. Read more

Published on 28 Aug 2000 by arti-kuri

1.0 out of 5 stars A total disappointment
This is one of the worst books I've read for long time. Whoever decided it should be published obviously has no idea about that part of the music business the band featured in... Read more

Published on 11 Aug 2000

2.0 out of 5 stars Hardly about music at all...
I was hugely disappointed in this book. I bought it after having read two glowing newspaper reviews and obviously made a false assumption that the central thread of the narrative... Read more

Published on 5 Aug 2000 by Mr. K. Dawson

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