The Fountain in the Forest

Tony White author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Published:4th Jan '18

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The Fountain in the Forest cover

Distant revolutions echo through time in this Oulipo-inspired novel about the moment when Thatcher's militia fatally wounded the British political counter-culture.

When a brutally murdered man is found hanging in a theatre, Detective Sergeant Rex King becomes obsessed with the case.When a brutally murdered man is found hanging in a theatre, Detective Sergeant Rex King becomes obsessed with the case. Who is this anonymous corpse, and why has he been ritually mutilated? But as Rex explores the crime scene further, the mystery deepens, and he finds himself confronting his own secret history instead. Who, more importantly, is Rex King? Shifting between Holborn Police Station, an abandoned village in rural 1980s France, and Stonehenge's Battle of the Beanfield, The Fountain in the Forest transforms the traditional crime narrative into something dizzyingly unique. At once an avant-garde linguistic experiment, thrilling police procedural, philosophical meditation on liberty, and counter-culture bildungsroman, this is an iconoclastic novel of unparalleled ambition.

ISBN: 9780571336180

Dimensions: 234mm x 153mm x 22mm

Weight: 436g

320 pages