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Box Hill: A Story of Low Self-Esteem
By Adam Mars-JonesPublisher Description
The winner of the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize
A sizzling and deeply touching love story between two men, set in the gay biker community of 1970s London
Mars-Jones uses Colin’s naivete to give a fresh view of the world and of love. Before long, however, homophobia, class, family strife, and loss rear their ugly heads. Yet in the end, it seems Colin’s modest view oddly takes in the widest horizon: he learns that “people can care about anything.” A surprise and a pleasure, Box Hill is an intensely moving short novel.
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“Beautiful prose. It’s a quirky and strange story. Not sure I grasped the meaning but I enjoyed it still.”
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About Adam Mars-Jones
Adam Mars-Jones' collection of stories Lantern Lecture won a 1982 Somerset Maugham Award, and he has since published a debut novel, Pilcrow (2008) and a second novel, Cedilla (2011). Other books include Noriko Smiling (2011, focused on Yasujiro Ozu), his memoir, Kid Gloves (2015), and a selection of his film writings, Second Sight (2019). He writes book reviews for the Observer and the London Review of Books.
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