The Deconstruction of Professor Thrub - Brossura

Johnston, D. D.

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ISBN 10: 0956336469 ISBN 13: 9780956336460

Casa editrice: Barbican Pr, 2013

Riassunto

Freewill, love, death, revolution - a student has the themes for his creative writing PhD. He pins them to Elsie Stewart and embarks on her biography. Love takes Elsie to the Spanish Civil War while the story hurtles off into the maelstrom of Ukrainian twentieth century history. Can Professor Thrub's post-structural guidance haul the project back on track? Will love and surgery redeem our student's struggles for a good life, significance and a doctorate? This biting comedy of love, desperation and existence offers a thrilling ride into the world of a major new writer.

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The Deconstruction of Professor Thrub is like a dopamine-enhanced Porterhouse Blue. As a PhD student grapples with the issues of free will and determinism refracted through the life of a Spanish civil war veteran, Johnston offers us a clanging charivari of clinical administrators, angry old academics and randy students. Among this din, Johnston takes us on quite an emotional and intellectual journey. Johnston's raw and unexpurgated humour, which gave his characters in peave, Love and Petrol Bombs such humanity, returns as coarse as ever. .. a determinedly extraordinary book. --Paul Simon - The Morning Star

An ambitious, erudite work with a profound interest in the world as we find it ...infused with a conviction of what the novel should be, and what it can achieve. --Christopher Burns - The Warwick Review

A historical epic, a story about love, revolution and the university, with echoes of Luther Blissett's Q and a lot of laughs, this is a great book which entertains, confuses and educates in equal measure. You should read it! --Steven Johns - Libcom.org

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The Sunday Herald of D.D.Johnston's first novel: ?Funny as all hell. And it’s got morally ambiguous people in it.’ The Morning Star: ?A very urgent relevance now and for the immediate future.’ D.D. Johnston was born in Scotland and studied Sociology at Edinburgh University. He is the author of Peace, Love, & Petrol Bombs (AK Press, 2011), chosen by Helen Fitzgerald as her Book of the Year in the Sunday Herald: ?Peace Love & Petrol Bombs, the debut novel by DD Johnston is a non-preachy coming-of-age story set amid the complex and chaotic backdrop of anti-capitalist politics. It’s also funny as all hell. And it’s got morally ambiguous people in it. Exactly my cup of organic free-trade tea.” Popmatters described it as ?a humorous and poignant novel about anarchism ? possibly a first” and added that ?this genial, engaging, yet serious search for meaning in a commodified global culture deserves wide acclaim” (John L. Murphy). While The Morning Star wrote that ?Rarely has a recent work of fiction so naturally and unpretentiously articulated Marx’s analysis of worker alienation explicitly and implicitly in its plotlines and dialogue. (?) Peace, Love and Petrol Bombs has a very urgent relevance now and for the immediate future” (Paul Simon).The Deconstruction of Professor Thrub (Barbican Press, 2013) was developed from his doctoral thesis, which earned him a PhD from the University of Gloucestershire in 2012. His short story 'The Invitation' was shortlisted for the 2012 Bridport Prize. He lives in Cheltenham and works at the University of Gloucestershire, where he is a University Teaching Fellow and a senior lecturer in Creative Writing.

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• Editore: Barbican Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0956336469
• ISBN 13: 9780956336460
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 340