Liquidambar
“The train moves forward in its pockets of pale light, leaving one place behind and moving into another like a snake shedding its skin. I always seem to have been moving from one station to another, through towns strange and forbidding in their obscurity; indistinct darknesses, abstract shapes beyond the glass. I never seem to have reached what was important, never quite made it to the station for which I was bound. But now there is a sense of new adventure.”
TYPO BLOD, Liquidambar
JOURNALIST TYPO BLOD meets a stranger on public transport, causing him to become absorbed by Edward Hopper’s paintings like a fly in amber. Time halts at the instant Hopper depicted in his most famous works and Blod’s world is thrown out of kilter. In a city tantalisingly part historical, part fantastical, Blod falls in love with Ellen Bogen, the subject of Hopper’s painting Summertime.
Liquidambar combines the noir atmosphere of the Philip Marlowe adventures with Russell Hoban’s magical surrealism and the characters and imagery of Hopper’s paintings in a surprisingly fresh detective story.
By the story’s culmination, Blod realises his experiences have taught him to better appreciate the “liquid amber” of the present moment.
Liquidambar won the PABD/UK Authors ‘Search For A Great Read’ competition. The judging panel commented:
“The style is clearly outstanding.”
“I began reading this one shortly after I got up, was instantly captivated, and knew at once it was a potential winner. This is a compulsive read.”
“Quite brilliant and completely original.”
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