The Insult
1st Edition
Published on 30. August 2012
416 pages
978-1-4088-3319-3 (ISBN)
Description
One of David Bowie's 100 Must-Read Books of All Time
It is a Thursday evening. After work Martin Blom drives to the supermarket to buy some groceries. As he walks back to his car, a shot rings out. When he wakes up he is blind. His neurosurgeon, Bruno Visser, tells him that his loss of sight is permanent and that he must expect to experience shock, depression, self-pity, even suicidal thoughts before his rehabilitation is complete. But it doesn't work out quite like that. One spring evening, while Martin is practising in the clinic gardens with his new white cane, something miraculous happens ...
It is a Thursday evening. After work Martin Blom drives to the supermarket to buy some groceries. As he walks back to his car, a shot rings out. When he wakes up he is blind. His neurosurgeon, Bruno Visser, tells him that his loss of sight is permanent and that he must expect to experience shock, depression, self-pity, even suicidal thoughts before his rehabilitation is complete. But it doesn't work out quite like that. One spring evening, while Martin is practising in the clinic gardens with his new white cane, something miraculous happens ...
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-3319-3 (9781408833193)
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Hunter S. Thompson
The Insult
Book
02/1996
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
€15.90
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Person
RUPERT THOMSON is the author of eight highly acclaimed novels, of which Air and Fire and The Insult were shortlisted for the Writer's Guild Fiction Prize and the Guardian Fiction Prize respectively. His most recent novel, Death of a Murderer, was shortlisted for the 2008 Costa Novel Award. His memoir This Party's Got to Stop was published in 2009.
Content
- Intro
- Praise for The Insult
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Nightlife
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Carving Babies
- Chapter 1
- Silver Skin
- Chapter 1
- A Note on the Author
- By the Same Author
- eCopyright
