AUGUST 2007 UPDATE: METRO OUT IN THE UK FEBRUARY 2008…
Posted in Metro, Sushi Central by admin on Haziran 11th, 2008
My novel Metro will be released by Burning House Books in the UK in February, 2008. Watch this space for more …
The draft UK cover of Metro is here! See it before I get in trouble and have to take it down, which may be extremely soon!
Since the book hit the shelves in Australia in August of 2006, I have been laying low, teaching creative writing, turning out a weekly for Rave magazine (covering subejcts as diverse as minimal techno, ice skating movies of the 1990s and Hilary Duff), hiding from the hordes of UK publishers beating down my door and trying to complete my Masters Degree, a novel that, when finished, will be the first part of a trilogy for young adults.
METRO is still not, as yet, available in the US. If you’re really keen, head to UQP,
my Aussie publishers, or pester your local bookstore to order it in from overseas. ‘Dance Recover Repeat’, the American edition of Sushi Central, is out now.
About the author …
Alasdair Duncan is a writer, journalist, charming drunk and freelance practitioner of dark humour, based in Brisbane on the East Coast of Australia. Brisbane is a town renowned for its blue sky sublimity in the cooler months, and its summer transformation into a sweltering portal to madness. Al writes on a typewriter in an underground tunnel he burrowed himself, where he breathes through a straw. He survives by the good grace of cold beer, decent conversation and romantic, moonlit bouts of intense neurosis and self-doubt, and writes a weekly column for Rave, Brisbane’s most popular music magazine.
Some fun stuff other people have said …
“Alasdair Duncan conjoures the world of the young and the reckless with vividness and precision … instantly familiar, [it] speaks to teenagers in their own voice, rather than a try-hard imitaiton of it.”
- Cameron Woodhead, The Melbourne Age
“Duncan rightly challenges his readers to meet his fiction on the terms of its own language, mileu, action. His writing is often droll, especially when revelling in the incongruity, the moral space between what has been done and what it said of it … [He] brings off a creepily convincing conclusion that is the best effect in a book that relishes what it knows and can show off.”
Peter Pierce, The Sydney Morning Herald
When you’re in a certain position, there are some things you can get away with, even if you’re not necessarily meant to. Lots of guys do things like this. Believe me.
Liam Kelly is the very model of the modern male - boys want to be him, girls want to be with him. He and his group of loyal mates spend their days driving around town, drinking beer and very occasionally going to lectures. His good looks compensate, everyone agrees, for his superior attitude and private-school arrogance.
Liam and his girlfriend Sara seem to be the perfect couple, but when she leaves for a European trip without him the facade begins to crumble.
He sees six months of freedom ahead, unaware that the consequences of his bad-boy behaviour will threaten the image he has so carefully created.
Metro is a satirical tale of morality, masculinity and money from the internationally acclaimed author of Sushi Central.
Sushi Central.
Any and all hate mail and declarations of hysterical, undying love can be sent to my email here: alasdair.duncan@gmail.com
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