The Failing of Angels
Published on 10. October 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
398 pages
978-1-874392-04-0 (ISBN)
Description
Disaster is only a handful of words away. And they are already being spoken...
An abused young boy craves the affection of his crusading mother, who brutally rejects him in favour of cultivating the dependence of lonely and desperate strangers. Acolytes who will, when promised emancipation from their suffering, cater to her every bizarre and catastrophic whim without question.
Poignant, harrowing and humorous, this poetic, bitter-sweet, dreamlike fable examines the corrosive pain of social isolation and emotional vulnerability, the devastating fragility of devotion and the power of love to transport us to perfect, imperfect and dangerously unpredictable places.
An abused young boy craves the affection of his crusading mother, who brutally rejects him in favour of cultivating the dependence of lonely and desperate strangers. Acolytes who will, when promised emancipation from their suffering, cater to her every bizarre and catastrophic whim without question.
Poignant, harrowing and humorous, this poetic, bitter-sweet, dreamlike fable examines the corrosive pain of social isolation and emotional vulnerability, the devastating fragility of devotion and the power of love to transport us to perfect, imperfect and dangerously unpredictable places.
Reviews / Votes
"I have never read such beautiful writing. I was stunned! The most beautifully written coming of age novel...EVER!!;The Failing of Angels has a plot to ponder...but really, the highlight is the writing. It is gorgeous. Tutton is a poet and that sensibility comes out in the book. Each sentence just needs to be reread. There are moments of pure beauty counterbalanced by sorrow but nevertheless there is a great amount of pleasure reading tightly crafted prose. The coming of age novel is nothing new in literature but Chris Tutton gives the genre a fresh outlook and I can guarantee that there will never be one which is as evocatively written as The Failing of Angels" Robert Pisani. "One of the most strikingly written books I've read all year; Tutton's prose is striking, full of alliteration, rhythm and unusual images...a strong heady brew of language that's well worth reading." David Hebblethwaite, David's Book World. Reading across the globe.More details
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 129 mm
Width: 197 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
446 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-874392-04-0 (9781874392040)
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Person
Chris Tutton is the critically acclaimed and award winning author of seven collections of poetry, the most recent being 'Impossible Memories', published in 2016.
Coined by Ned Sherrin as "the master of the short poem", his work has also been described as "absolutely beautiful" by Alexander Waugh and Iain Anderson of BBC Scotland noted that it was "philosophy in poetry form", with the Sunday Times commenting on its "dramatic passion and dignity".
'The Failing of Angels' is his extraordinary debut novel.
Find Chris at www.christutton.co.uk
Coined by Ned Sherrin as "the master of the short poem", his work has also been described as "absolutely beautiful" by Alexander Waugh and Iain Anderson of BBC Scotland noted that it was "philosophy in poetry form", with the Sunday Times commenting on its "dramatic passion and dignity".
'The Failing of Angels' is his extraordinary debut novel.
Find Chris at www.christutton.co.uk