The Constitutionals
A Fiction
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Two Rivers Press
Published:27th Apr '19
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Taking some convalescent wanders around Reading, the narrator of The Constitutionals, a figure haunted by being called Crusoe in childhood, also ‘sets out to avert global catastrophe, hoping to trigger the end of neoliberalism by going for a walk.’ What does he discover about the place in which he’s settled with his wife, who he will call Friday, and their ocean-haunted daughter?
Published on the tercentenary of Robinson Crusoe’s appearance, our author answers such questions by paying sustained tribute to the town, and the founding ‘autobiography’ by which it has—as have so many works alluded to here—been indelibly marked.
'Drinking deep from one of the great and self-renewing sources of the English imagination, Peter Robinson caulks the punctured craft of contemporary fiction. His wit and intelligence reinvigorate our diminished sense of the local: as it reluctantly reveals itself through a series of melancholy peregrinations. Here the solitary poet walks with his invisible peers, ventriloquizing the grateful dead, and making new.'
Iain Sinclair
'It made me laugh and cry in equal measure... a very moving book'
Nadja Guggi
ISBN: 9781909747487
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 378g
200 pages