Product Details
Paperback: 254 Pages
Publisher: Half Moon Books
Language: English
ISBN: 0-9542463-1-4
Author: Christopher Jeffries
Price: £7.99
Vals Hotel
Is the story of one man’s descent into a hell-hole in East Manchester, all because of a near religious belief in a theory he has dreamt-up for prolonging human life on earth. In this remarkable story, Mathew Boswell, while attempting to propel his staggering theory into the public consciousness, is unwittingly introduced to East Manchester’s underbelly: a murderous, repugnant class of people he had never imagined he would ever meet, even in his worst nightmare.
Synopsis
The story twists and turns, from the depths of Manchester’s skid row to the top of Blackpool Tower to New York City, then just as you think you are about to step off the rollercoaster and breathe a less rarefied oxygen, the author emiraculously resurrects Al Capone from the grave, Mae West, Adolf Hitler, William Shakespeare, Marilyn Monroe, Ghandi, JFK, Joan of Arc, Casanova, Lee Harvey Oswald, all in one jaw-dropping chapter. Not satisfied with that, the author then allows these characters to breathe, to speak, to vent their views on the modern world.
Reviews
Always irreverent, indiscreet, and widely funny, Christopher Jeffries is a philosopher of the street, a moral force of such colossal dimensions that he might – just might, turn out to be the conscience of the English-speaking world. Jonathan Fry... literary critc