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As any reader of Bram Stoker will know, blood is the (full-colour)
life and in order for Justine to retain her colour she has to be
topped up now and then - by Irving and his friends and the odd
passer-by. Things become a little complicated when Grace Kowalski
brings a Justine Two into the picture and not surprisingly the
curiosity of the police is soon aroused ...
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When eighty-three-year-old Irving Goodman falls in love with actress
Justine Trimble she's been dead for forty-seven years. Irving may not
know how he's going to attain his heart's desire but he knows a man who
does. Istvan Fallok, a wizard of high technology, sees her on Irving's
TV screen and hi-techs Justine out of the video tape and into
present-day Soho - in black-and-white. < 'By far the most
imaginative novelist in Britain' Independent 'Hoban is the best sort of
genius ... Long indeed may he linger' Guardian 'The primary pleasure of
this book and of Hoban's writing in general is the unsullied joy at the
strange great coincidence of life that breathes through every sentence.
"I find it impossible to stop writing," states the author in
his afterword. And thank heavens for that' Independent 'Fiercely comic
and darkly moving. The real London that underpins the book has rarely
seemed so alive with possibility ... Linger Awhile reasserts the novel's
subversive and transgressive power but also restores its ability to
sustain and entertain Scottish Sunday Herald >
As any reader of
Bram Stoker will know, blood is the (full-colour) life and in order
for Justine to retain her colour she has to be topped up now and then
- by Irving and his friends and the odd passer-by. Things become a
little complicated when Grace Kowalski brings a Justine Two into the
picture and not surprisingly the curiosity of the police is soon
aroused ...
DIV>
When eighty-three-year-old Irving Goodman falls in love with actress
Justine Trimble she's been dead for forty-seven years. Irving may not
know how he's going to attain his heart's desire but he knows a man who
does. Istvan Fallok, a wizard of high technology, sees her on Irving's
TV screen and hi-techs Justine out of the video tape and into
present-day Soho - in black-and-white. <
