Slow Chocolate Autopsy
Norton, the hero, travels through London's underbelly trapped in space but not in time. He is present to witness dark deeds from Deptford at the time of Marlowe's death and in the East Endduring the sixties watching the murder of Jack th Hat McVitie. Bizarre and phantasmagoric, the book draws on...
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Norton, the hero, travels through London's underbelly trapped in space but not in time. He is present to witness dark deeds from Deptford at the time of Marlowe's death and in the East Endduring the sixties watching the murder of Jack th Hat McVitie. Bizarre and phantasmagoric, the book draws on images of the city from the Rennaissance to the deacy of Thatcher's london.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780753801529 (0753801523)
Edition language: English
I picked this up for the Dave McKean illustrations - I'd never heard of the author.Well, I read through page 50 (the first three stories), and looked at all the illustrations.This just isn't my kind of thing. I guess I'd call it 'British Weird' or something of the sort. The writing seems deliberatel...
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