Sleeping Patterns
A Travel, Fiction, Humor book. In the 102 pages of his debut novel, JR Crook discusses the relationship between author,...
In a run-down student residence in South London, Annelie Strandli, a beautiful but confused designer, who is disorientated after leaving her native Finland, finds herself gravitating towards Berry Walker, an insomniac and aspiring writer. Berry is often introspective and withdrawn, but in his writings Annelie sees the chance to glimpse him as he truly is. With the help of the narrator, she conspires to discover parts of a secret story that is...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 112 pages
- ISBN: 9781908775528 / 0
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"These fragments I have shored against my ruins..."Is Sleeping Patterns a work of abstract genius, or is the author too full of the cleverness of his ideas that he thinks he's above putting them into a coherent story? Has he carefully constructed a delicate yet beautiful puzzle - one that reveals itself to the patient reader like the... In the 102 pages of his debut novel, JR Crook discusses the relationship between author, subject and reader, plays with narrative structures, explores multiple character viewpoints and the complexities of shared experience whilst retaining a lightness of touch and eschewing the sort of dense dogmatism which can plague literary fiction.... This a short work of just over a hundred pages and it is an unusual narrative of layered stories. The opening surprised me and heightened my interest - the novel is 'dedicated to the memory of the author'. Then we have an introduction by Annelie Strandli, know to her friends as Grethe, who is also a character in the book, alerting us...
