The second novel from Lee Rourke, author of the cult hit The Canal.
Jon Michaels - a divorced, disaffected and fatigued editor living a nondescript life in North London - wakes one morning to a phone call informing him that his uncle has been found dead in his caravan on Canvey Island. Dismissed from his job only the day before and hung-over, Jon reluctantly agrees to sort through his uncle's belongings and clear out the caravan. What follows is a quixotic week on Canvey as Jon, led on by desire and delusion, purposeful but increasingly disorientated, unfolds a disturbing secret, ever more enchanted by the island - its landscape and its atmosphere.
Haunted and haunting, Vulgar Things is part mystery, part romance, part odyssey: a novel in which the menial entrances and the banal compels.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Jon Michaels - a divorced, disaffected and fatigued editor living a nondescript life in North London - wakes one morning to a phone call informing him that his uncle has been found dead in his caravan on Canvey Island. Dismissed from his job only the day before and hung-over, Jon reluctantly agrees to sort through his uncle's belongings and clear out the caravan. What follows is a quixotic week on Canvey as Jon, led on by desire and delusion, purposeful but increasingly disorientated, unfolds a disturbing secret, ever more enchanted by the island - its landscape and its atmosphere.
Haunted and haunting, Vulgar Things is part mystery, part romance, part odyssey: a novel in which the menial entrances and the banal compels.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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Title: Vulgar Things
Author(s): Lee Rourke
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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July 2014 : Australia Audio edition

Title: Vulgar Things
Author(s): Lee Rourke
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Availability: Amazon AU
July 2014 : Canada Audio edition

Title: Vulgar Things
Author(s): Lee Rourke
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Availability: Amazon CA
July 2014 : UK Audio edition

Title: Vulgar Things
Author(s): Lee Rourke
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Availability: Amazon UK
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July 2014 : USA, Canada, UK Kindle edition