Miles Gibson's cult novel from 1984 returns to print with a new preface by the author. Growing up in a small hotel in a shabby seaside town, lonely William 'Mackerel' Burton amuses himself by perfecting his conjuring tricks. In adult life his magic turns lethal as he stalks the streets of London - the butcher in rubber gloves, the acrobat called Death. He is the Sandman. 'A splendidly macabre achievement... As an account of descent into homicidal mania it has seldom been bettered.' Time Out 'Unspeakable acts are reported ...
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Miles Gibson's cult novel from 1984 returns to print with a new preface by the author. Growing up in a small hotel in a shabby seaside town, lonely William 'Mackerel' Burton amuses himself by perfecting his conjuring tricks. In adult life his magic turns lethal as he stalks the streets of London - the butcher in rubber gloves, the acrobat called Death. He is the Sandman. 'A splendidly macabre achievement... As an account of descent into homicidal mania it has seldom been bettered.' Time Out 'Unspeakable acts are reported with an unwavering reasonableness essential to the comic impact...' Times Literary Supplement 'Written by a virtuoso - it luxuriates in death with a Jacobean fervour.' Sydney Morning Herald
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 9" Tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10077.
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New York. 1984. St Martin's Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0312699123. 1st Novel. 179 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by Ian Pollock. keywords: Literature England. FROM THE PUBLISHER-‘My name is William Mackerel Burton. I have killed eighteen men and women. It has been my life's work. ‘ In his journal, his book of the dead, an ordinary young man with an extraordinary secret life sets down the record of his murderous career. Growing up in a private hotel in a small seaside town, Mackerel Burton has no idea he is destined to become a monster. A lonely child, he amuses himself at home by perfecting his conjuring. But then he discovers the greatest disappearing trick of all-murder-and life takes on a new magic. Mackerel packs up and sets off for London and the killing ground. From the first acts of butchery in a Kilburn basement he moves out into the streets to murder swiftly, efficiently and at random-housewives, businessmen, spinsters, prostitutes-until he is addicted and the blood he sheds so expertly and ruthlessly has become a drug. He is beyond help and beyond capture. He is the Sandman. Miles Gibson, a gifted and original young writer, takes the reader into the mind of a man obsessed with the terror and beauty of death. We inhabit his dark world, dream his nightmares and share his fears. Writing with elegance and remarkable imaginative insight, he has created a vivid and extraordinarily powerful first novel. MILES GIBSON was born in the New Forest in 1947. He was educated at Sandhills Primary School (where he learned to cut things out with plastic scissors) and Somerford Secondary Modern (where he lost a curious number of sneakers). Two collections of his poetry have been published and he writes, sometimes, for the Telegraph Sunday Magazine. He lives alone in London. inventory #10751.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First American edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Vry light foxing. Dustwrapper rubbed with foxing on the inside only. Small tear on back, tiny tearing on spine ends. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
