{"product_id":"man-eating-typewriter-richard-milward-9781399602020","title":"Man-Eating Typewriter: Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2023","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A major talent' Irvine Welsh\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Remarkable, beautiful, magic. Like Ulysses for those who can't cope with reading Ulysses' Paolo Hewitt\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'We're all in the gutter but some of us are ogling the sparkles.'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet at the fag-end of the 1960s and framed as a novel within a novel published by a seedy London purveyor of pulp fiction, MAN-EATING TYPEWRITER is a homage to the avant-garde counterculture of the 20th century. Told in Polari, it is the story of an anarchist named Raymond Novak and his plan to commit a 'fantabulosa crime' in 276 days that will revolt the world. A surrealistic odyssey that stretches from occupied Paris to the cruise-liner SS \u003ci\u003eUnmentionable\u003c\/i\u003e to lawless Tangier before settling in Swinging London, the book casts Novak as an agitator and freedom fighter - but, as his memoirs become more and more threatening, his publishers find themselves far more involved in his violent personality cult than they ever intended. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eConstructed like a hallucinogenic cocktail of \u003ci\u003eA Clockwork Orange\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePale Fire\u003c\/i\u003e and Jean Genet's jailbird fantasies, MAN-EATING TYPEWRITER is an act of seductive sedition by a writer with unfathomable literary talent and boldness. Wild, transgressive, erotic and resolutely uncompromising, this marks the return of a writer who is out there on an island of his own making; a book that will be talked about, celebrated and puzzled over for decades.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Milward\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1399602020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781399602020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e White Rabbit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/04\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Richard Milward","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46420524171519,"sku":"9781399602020","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c7154eca-deeb-4435-a670-9e661ad83d12.jpg?v=1734634883","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/man-eating-typewriter-richard-milward-9781399602020","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}