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    612-822-4611

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Greater London

Greater London

Russell, James

Paperback

General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1874400822
ISBN13: 9781874400820
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Oct 1 2021
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

GREATER LONDON tells the life-story of Leo Barber, a celebrity across several domains. He first finds fame during the 1975 referendum on the UK's membership of the Common Market (as it was then), by inventing a character called Jimmy Paxton, a faux-innocent, rabble-rousing xenophobe. Later in life he passes himself off as a poet, whose poems were in fact generated by computer in his brother's laboratory. Later still he authors a book on the neuroscience of the creative mind, about which he knows nothing (though luckily his clever, put-upon brother does). But, despicable though he is, who would have thought he'd stoop to murder? We hear about all this in Leo's own voice - discursive, opinionated, vulnerable, comic, often sympathetic. Not the voice or mind of a natural villain.

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