{"product_id":"man-eating-typewriter","title":"Man Eating Typewriter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A major talent'' Irvine Welsh\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57200220209534,"sku":"NW9781399602020","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781399602020.jpg?v=1778533800","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/man-eating-typewriter","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}