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John Niven (Guitarist)

    Deze auteur biedt een scherpe, satirische kijk op de hedendaagse cultuur, met name de muziekindustrie, waarbij hij put uit persoonlijke ervaring om de excessen en morele ambiguïteiten bloot te leggen. Zijn verhalen worden gekenmerkt door een rauwe, energieke stijl die ingaat op de donkerdere aspecten van ambitie en het najagen van succes. Door middel van bijtend sociaal commentaar bekritiseert hij de oppervlakkigheid en de competitieve aard van het moderne leven. Zijn onderscheidende stem biedt lezers een ongefilterde en meeslepende verkenning van de vaak corrumperende invloed van ambitie.

    Straight White Male
    • Straight White Male

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      Kennedy Marr is a novelist from the old school. Irish, acerbic, and a borderline alcoholic and sex-addict, his mantra is drink hard, write hard and try to screw every woman you meet. He's writing film scripts in LA, fucking, drinking and insulting his way through Californian society, but also suffering from writers block and unpaid taxes. Then a solution presents itself - Marr is to be the unlikely recipient of the W. F. Bingham Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Modern Literature, an award worth half a million pounds. But it does not come without a price: he must spend a year teaching at the English university where his ex-wife and estranged daughter now reside. As Kennedy acclimatises to the sleepy campus, inspiring revulsion and worship in equal measure, he's forced to reconsider his precarious lifestyle. Incredible as it may seem, there might actually be a father and a teacher lurking inside this 'preening, narcissistic, priapic, sociopath'. Or is there... Straight White Male is a no-holds-barred look into the mid-life crisis and the contemporary male sexual psyche. It is a brilliant new satire from one of Britain's sharpest writers.

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