To the girls who came to make it big in the town's 'What the Butler Saw' movie industry, Aberystwyth was the town of broken dreams. To Dean Morgan who taught at the Faculty of Undertaking, it was just a place to get course materials. But both worlds collide when the Dean checks into the notorious bed and breakfast ghetto and mistakenly receives a suitcase intended for a ruthless druid assassin. Soon he is running for his life, lost in a dark labyrinth of druid speakeasies and toffee apple dens, where every spinning wheel tells the story of a broken heart, and where the Dean's own heart is hopelessly in thrall to a porn star known as Judy Juice.
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
'A sustained masterpiece of dark imagination I am already looking forward to future volumes in this marvellously surreal Welsh noir series' Daily Telegraph 'Combines Monty Python absurdity with tenderness for the twisted world of noir Add a clown, a brain in a box and an endearing gallery of grotesques and stir maliciously. Priceless' Guardian 'Pryce is in a league of his own effortless and hilarious Pryce's novels show disturbing signs of becoming a cult. If only Aberystwyth was really like this' Time Out
About the Author
Malcolm Pryce has worked as an advertising copywriter, in London and later Singapore. During this time he created campaigns for the famous Singapore Girl, and also wrote tourist promotional advertising for the former headhunting tribes of borneo - a group of people he describes as the most civilized clients he ever dealt with. He now lives in Bangkok.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Pryce Does It Again,
This review is from: Last Tango in Aberystwyth (Paperback)
Pryce follows up his Aberystwyth debut with another tale of unbelievable weirdness. One gets the impression he thought the first book would be a stand-alone and its success prompted him to turn it into a series. Whatever the case, I'm glad he did. While the early pages of this book are spent explaining away the apocalyptic ending of the first, they do so in a way that blends in with the story. And again, the story--twisted, bizarre, unbelievable, involving Druid assassins and a porn star named Judy Juice--is not the point. Pryce continues chronicling, in the best noir detective fashion, the adventures of Louie Knight, Aberystwyth's only Private Eye, whose internal monologues reflect the absurdities of the real world with a comic and sometimes poignant edge.
Once again, be warned: the more you know about the Welsh and the Welsh culture, the more jokes you are going to get.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
