Stump
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:5th Jun '17
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
A newcomer has arrived in a small Welsh seaside town - a one-armed Liverpudlian. Seeking to rebuild his life, if not his body, he is attempting to lead a life here unlike any he's lived before: a normal one - shopping, gardening, signing on, visiting friends, all the usual diurnal activities.
Over a hundred miles to the north, however, two men in shellsuits are leaving Liverpool, heading south in a rickety old car. They have been sent by their gang-boss to wreak terrible, violent revenge, but have only a rough idea of their quarry: a one-armed man, maybe living somewhere in west Wales, in a small town by the sea.
He is an epic and, at moments, visionary writer-Griffiths, through this man's gentle but raging voice, gives one of the great depictions of alcoholism * Toby Litt, Guardian *
Niall Griffiths is an actual literary star. He writes with vim and sympathy about the things young people do * Daily Telegraph *
In the top rank of contemporary British authors...He brings tremendous rhythm and energy to his prose * Herald *
Stump is the author's gentlest and funniest book by far-He has a prose style as compelling and seductive as any writer in the land * Big Issue *
The range of Griffiths's achievement is as exhilarating as the reach of his ambition * Guardian *
ISBN: 9781784706487
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm
Weight: 171g
240 pages