Mr Narrator
Published on 4. May 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
161 pages
978-1-915568-02-1 (ISBN)
Description
Pat Gray's Kafkaesque fantasy presents a bureaucratic landscape which is both sinister and comic.
Mr Narrator leads an obscure neo-colonial existence in Goughly, where he is an export agent for a firm of Rotherham engineers and shares a flat and a mistress with Murphy, a post-modernist writer. An upset to one of his business deals plunges him into a bizarre cross-desert journey to the capital, where, social, political and sexual humiliation descend on him in ever increasing number.
Pat Gray's novel portrays with documentary accuracy a Morocco which has never existed but one which has now been colonised by surrealism
Mr Narrator leads an obscure neo-colonial existence in Goughly, where he is an export agent for a firm of Rotherham engineers and shares a flat and a mistress with Murphy, a post-modernist writer. An upset to one of his business deals plunges him into a bizarre cross-desert journey to the capital, where, social, political and sexual humiliation descend on him in ever increasing number.
Pat Gray's novel portrays with documentary accuracy a Morocco which has never existed but one which has now been colonised by surrealism
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambs
United Kingdom
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 126 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
159 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-915568-02-1 (9781915568021)
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Pat Gray was born in Belfast. Between 1979 and 1981 he lived and worked in Morocco as a teacher. Since then he has worked extensively in Eastern Europe, but now lives in London.
He is the author of five novels: Mr Narrator (1989/2023), The Political Map of the Heart (2001), The Cat(1997/2015), Dirty Old Tricks (2020) and The Redemption Cut(2022).
He is the author of five novels: Mr Narrator (1989/2023), The Political Map of the Heart (2001), The Cat(1997/2015), Dirty Old Tricks (2020) and The Redemption Cut(2022).