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MARTIN JOHN
A brave literary interrogation of an immensely difficult subject, one that we'd rather avoid, which only isolates its victims even further.
One in three women experience unwanted sexual acts. If abusers and sexual deviants are that prevalent, then they are not somewhere else, not somebody else's problem, not an aberration easily dismissed. They are among us: on the bus, and at our kitchen tables. Anakana delves into the mind of such a man, who leads a pitiful, strange, and isolated life. Plagued by anxious delusions, his urge to rub himself against women and expose himself, Martin John lives a life of repetitive rituals circuits, he calls them, both on the job as a security guard and janitor, and off, as he compulsively fulfills his required routine around Euston Station in London. When he wraps himself around the wheels of a train, not the security staff, and not the police officers, but only Mary, the Nigerian who works at the bakery counter in the station, holds the power to release him. Brave, intense, and filled with unforgettable characters, as well as the most ribald and mordant black humor imaginable. MARTIN JOHN is a multilayered novel that explores the nature of sexuality, and what is knowable inliterature, and in life. From Ananaka Schofield, the brilliant and unconventional author of MALARKY, comes a dark and uncomfortable novel circuiting through the minds, motivations, and preoccupations of a character many women have experienced, but few up until now, have understood quite so well. The result confirms Schofield as one of the bravest and most innovative authors at work in English today. Anakana Schofield is an Irish-born writer, who won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and the Debut-Litzer Prize for Fiction in 2013 for her debut novel Malarky.
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Published 2023-05-11 by Biblioasis |