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Jack Bick is an interview journalist at a glossy lifestyle magazine. From his office window he can see a black column of smoke in the sky, the result of an industrial accident on the edge of the city. When Bick goes from being a high-functioning alcoholic to being a non-functioning alcoholic, his life goes into freefall, the smoke a harbinger of truth, an omen of personal apocalypse. An unpromising interview with Oliver Pierce, a reclusive cult novelist, unexpectedly yields a huge story, one that could save his job. But the novelist knows something about Bick, and the two men are drawn into a bizarre, violent partnership that is both an act of defiance against the changing city, and a surrender to its spreading darkness.
Main title:
Plume / Will Wiles.
Author:
Wiles, Will, author
Imprint:
London : 4th Estate, 2020.
Collation:
370 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2019.
ISBN:
9780008194444 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
Local class:
F
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2924145