Stewart Home: Memphis Underground (2007)
8 June 2012, dusan
Filed under book | Tags: · art, contemporary art, fiction, literature, london, soul music
Sent to a remote Scottish community to pose as its artist-in-residence, the narrator of Stewart Home’s provocative new novel discovers an undercurrent of corruption, wife-swapping and military secrets.
Meanwhile in London, a counter-narrative revolves around clubs, pubs, fights and feuds; making money, selling souls, trying to break on through.
A satire on contemporary art; a hymn to classic soul music; a meditation on celebrity; a deconstruction and rewriting of modern literature; Memphis Underground is all this and more.
Publisher Snowbooks, 2007
ISBN 1905005423, 9781905005420
316 pages
PDF (updated on 2012-6-13)
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