The Heart Broke In
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780857862914 (085786291X)
Publish date: August 1st 2012
Publisher: Canongate Books
Edition language: English
I received this book from Canongate through Nudge.Ritchie Shepherd is a former rock star turned television personality with an unhealthy appetite for girls who are much too young even though he is married and has two young children. Because he is very good at lying to himself about himself he doesn’...
A sprawling novel filled with characters and issues and malaria and cancer and lashings of science and life/death and sex. A revelation within the confines of family drama and quite unlike anything I have read before. But to be fair, I have read previous books by James Meek and it is always a revela...