Book description
HISTORY HAPPENED WHILE YOU WERE HUNGOVER.
When you haven't had sex in a long time, it feels like the worst thing
that could ever happen to anyone.
If you're living in Germany in the 1930s, it probably isn't.
But that's no consolation to Egon Loeser, whose carnal misfortunes will
push him from the experimental theatres of Berlin to the absinthe bars
of Paris to the physics laboratories of Los Angeles, trying all the
while to solve two mysteries: whether it was really a deal with Satan
that claimed the life of his hero, the great Renaissance stage designer
Adriano Lavicini; and why a handsome, clever, charming, modest guy like
him can't, just once in a while, get himself laid.
From the author of the acclaimed Boxer, Beetle
comes a historical novel that doesn't know what year it is; a noir
novel that turns all the lights on; a romance novel that arrives drunk
to dinner; a science fiction novel that can't remember what 'isotope'
means; a stunningly inventive, exceptionally funny, dangerously unsteady
and (largely) coherent novel about sex, violence, space, time, and how
the best way to deal with history is to ignore it.
LET'S HOPE THE PARTY WAS WORTH IT
'Beauman writes with wit and verve.' Ned Beauman was born in 1985
and lives in London. He has written for Dazed & Confused, AnOther
and the Guardian. His debut novel, Boxer, Beetle, was shortlisted for
the Guardian First Book Award and the Desmond Elliot Prize, and won the
Writers' Guild Award for Best Fiction Book. Ned Beauman was picked by
The Culture Show as one of the 12 Best New British Writers in 2011.
