Product Details
Paperback: 254 Pages
Publisher: Half Moon Books
Language: English
ISBN: 0-9542463-2-2
Author: Christopher Jeffries
Price: £7.99
An Invisible Sun
Focuses on the wild and sometimes seedy life of Vincent Dexter, studio hand extraordinaire, and the remarkable set of circumstances that led to his meteoric rise to stardom.
Synopsis
One of life's misfits, Vincent Dexter, a young man on the road to self-destruction, unexpectedly finds himself thrust in the spotlight of prime-time television, when he is given the unenviable task of interviewing one of the greatest minds of the 20th Century; a recluse hero-worshipped by millions of people around the world. The story revolves around the often sleazy and superficial world of showbusiness, with characters so repulsive they make Hannibal Lechter look like a mild-mannered vegetarian by comparision. The author skilfully intertwining several threads of plot that finally combine as the story reaches its unexpected climax.
"Dear God, did you actually make us--I mean us, you know, the human race?"
"Well of course I made you, stupid! Who else could have performed such a miracle?"
"Then why did you make us with such evil, such greed, such cruelty, viciousness, deceit, the urge to wage war, the urge to rape and pillage--why did you make us this way, God? Did you have a hangover or something?"
As the above passage demonstrates, although the tone of the book is essentially light-hearted, the author seems to be constantly chipping away at some deeper, unfathomable truth; constantly asking the big questions--which inevitably, takes the reader to places they would not normally go.
Reviews
This is a real ball-burster of a novel... much too good to win the Booker Prize. Herman Blake, literary critic.