Book description
The youth from the old colonies head to London, a mecca for hedonism,
dangerous encounters and self-discovery in this vibrant, shocking novel.
Craig Marriner s second novel lifts the lid on the Big OE as his
sprawling cast of young Southerners tackle London head on. There s Lisa
from Cape Town, class warrior and part-time drug dealer; Ryan the
Aussie, with little to show for two years of overstaying but hangovers
and hang-ups; and Alex from Auckland, fresh off the plane, a management
graduate with the world at his feet, if he can grow up fast enough. And
there s London itself, a stage that sets no limits on hedonism and
personal discovery. The ancient city has never seemed so promising. Or
so dangerous. Cockney villains tussle with blacks, establishment toffs
tug invisible strings, but newcomers from the East could be the jokers
in the pack as old institutions are threatened by the forces of a
globalised world. In the midst of it all, the neo-explorers are set to
learn just how far from home they really are, how much London has to
give, and the price it can demand in return. In this brilliant novel,
Marriner further develops the distinctive brand of fiction he introduced
in the jaw-dropping Stonedogs. Southern Style rubs philosophy and
polemic up against a story that swings from the hilarious to the
shocking and every shade in between. Craig Marriner is New Zealand's
response to Irivine Welsh and Quentin Tarantino. The raw and scathing
prose of his first novel, Stonedogs, broke new ground and the work went
on to win the Montana Book Awards Deutz Medal for Fiction.
