Clock
by Nick Hemsley
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Author: Nick HemsleyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-07-02
ISBN: 1411696247
Number of pages: 142
Publisher: Lulu.com
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Book Review: "....alive with hilarious and sometimes shocking anecdotes"
Summary: 5 Stars
A new book from a new author is always a risk but I would truly recommend that you read `Clock' by Nick Hemsley. It is alive with hilarious and sometimes shocking anecdotes painted, you feel, from life. One naughty example is the hapless Henry Poole, sometime wearer of Mrs Poole's undergarments and furtive adulterer. Another, more familiar in the newspapers today, is Jim the famous and seemingly mad artist, living a life built on bad behaviour and notoriety but all the time really seeking the lost tenderness of his misplaced mother. Throughout the narrative there are many more characters brightening up the more sober main plot with its tragic and ultimately fatalistic thrust.
There are echoes of the relentless march of one of Edgar Allen Poe's short tales or poems, The Cask of Amontillado say, or The Raven, although the crackle of the contemporary interest and detail in the prose speaks with a unique voice from a different century. Parallels from the world of movies that can be made are with the torrid freneticness of Don't Look Now and the desperate doom-laden Micky Rourke in Angelheart. The major point of difference is the many moments of levity and the keen observation of late 20th life that is sprinkled throughout Nick Hemsley's first book. The writing style is compact, and occasionally challenging, but always compelling, driving the reader onwards to their date with fate. Whilst this is not a world devoid of good and compassion it does question whether the casual sinner is able to escape punishment.
Obsession, passion, infatuation and isolation all have their parts to play in this story but it is an enjoyable read. Whether or not it is a ghost story is for you to decide.
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