Jott
A John Murray Original
Published on 14. June 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-4736-7505-6 (ISBN)
Description
In February of 1935, two young Irishmen walk in the grounds of a London mental hospital. Arthur Bourne, a junior psychiatrist, is about to jeopardise his future for his closest friend, an aspiring writer called Louis Molyneux.
Arthur has been overshadowed since childhood by his brilliant, troubled friend. But after years of playing the unassuming companion, he is learning that loyalty has its costs: that old friendship may thwart new love, and perhaps even blur distinctions between the sane and the mad . . .
Jott is a story about friendship, madness and modernism from the author of the Man Booker-longlisted Communion Town.
Arthur has been overshadowed since childhood by his brilliant, troubled friend. But after years of playing the unassuming companion, he is learning that loyalty has its costs: that old friendship may thwart new love, and perhaps even blur distinctions between the sane and the mad . . .
Jott is a story about friendship, madness and modernism from the author of the Man Booker-longlisted Communion Town.
Reviews / Votes
A shrewd portrait of a particular kind of male friendship, simultaneously intense and incomplete * Mail on Sunday * A complex, nuanced literary novel of extraordinary perception * Herald * Engaging * Irish Times * It's a rare treat to read a novel that pulls you into its world so quickly and deeply. The characters and their interrelationships are unfolded with mesmerizing precision * Chris Arthur * The flowing narrative and nuances of everyday life, paralleled with failure and triumph, is reminiscent of James Joyce * Lady * A fresh and supple portrait of an era in flux . . . expertly done * Guardian * In Jott [Thompson] shows another simpler life where one focuses on helping others and on developing relationships rather than on the self-absorbed perspective of the struggling writer . . . it is in the depiction of Beckett as Louis where this story comes most alive * Irish Examiner * A touching and thoughtful portrait * TLS *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Murray Press
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
324 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4736-7505-6 (9781473675056)
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Person
Sam Thompson was born in 1978. His first novel, Communion Town, was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2012. Jott is his second novel.