Erskine's Box - Hardcover
Erskine Flesching appears to be addressing a young woman who has stolen both his heart and secrets, and is locked up in his private sanctuary. Is she dead too? Can he be trusted? Is this just wish fulfilment or a madman's confession?
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Kym Lloyd was born and grew up in Swansea. As a schoolchild she won a WHSmith Young Writers Prize and, after gaining a degree in French and working for a publisher in Oxford, chose to concentrate on her writing. While supporting herself in a variety of jobs from cleaning to van driving, she succeeded in getting short stories and poems published in several magazines. She now lives in Hertfordshire with her husband and twin daughters, and is working on her second novel.
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'Startlingly lovely prose ... It's faultless ... Lloyd carries it off by that simplest of expedients - being brilliant.' -- Independent on Sunday 'This story of unrequited love and artistic failure evolves into a stylish, yet believable tale of gothic horror. The skill of Lloyd's writing makes it a real page-turner, a truly promising debut.' -- Daily Mail 'Lloyd is a lapdancer of a writer ... damn nasty, and all the better for that' -- The Face 'Lloyd teases mercilessly, coyly leading one to a conclusion as dreaded as it is desired.' -- The Times 'Deliciously macabre ... The gradual unravelling of [Erskine's] myth-making as he returns to his childhood home after 30 years lends suspense to this ribald verbal feast' -- Arena 'Teases and delights in equal measure ... the ambiguity of everything Erskine relates keeps the reader hooked to his revelations up to the last page' -- Waterstone's Books Quarterly 'Lloyd has created a compellingly enigmatic monster, one fit to sit alongside other great literary ghouls like John Fowles' Frederick in THE COLLECTOR and William Trevor's Mr Hilditch in FELICIA'S JOURNEY ... utterly compelling. This is a spellbinding book which will work its (black) magic on you and keep you up long past your bedtime.' -- Big Issue in the North (*****) 'One of the most original novels you're likely to come across this year.' -- Irish Examiner
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- PublisherSceptre
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0340824298
- ISBN 13 9780340824290
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
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Book Description Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. When Erskine Fleshing returns to the sprawling seaside house of his childhood to reinvent himself, he finds it badly worn and his mother no longer the glamorous redhead he once adored. Indeed, he decides, she is also losing her wits. 309 pp.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature). Seller Inventory # 038196
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition, First Printing. First novel. "Kyn Lloyd has created an extraordinary character in Erskine Fleshing: teasing, sensuous, somewhat shocking, always beguiling, as he sits in the center of his web, spinning the story of his life like a demented spider.". Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # DDR1598
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Book Description Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Sceptre, London, 2003. First edition. Book condition: near fine and unread. Dust jacket condition: near fine and unclipped. In this, her first novel, Kim Lloyd has created an extraordinary character in Erskine Flesching: teasing, sensuous, sometimes shocking, always beguiling as he sits at the centre of his web, spinning the story of his life like a demented spider. Gleaming with savage humour and a relish for language, this is a striking exploration of identity and an exceptionally accomplished, memorable debut. Book. Seller Inventory # 1302850
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