[electrobooks] Heartland by Anthony Cartwright
- From: "Alan Russell" <al.russell12@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <electrobooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 21:54:17 +0100
Hi,
I have uploaded this. Here is the synopsis. Alan.
'Cartwright's patient, attentive storytelling shines
a glowing light on areas of our common experience
that the English novel usually consigns to darkness.
A writer with a wonderful ear for dialect and an
unblinking sense of Britain as it is today'
011177
It is Spring 2002 in the Black Country, with local elections looming. A
mosque is being built on the site where Cinderheath's iconic steelworks once
dominated the town. 'The Tipton Three', from just down the road, are
imprisoned in Guantanamo; the BNP expect to win new seats on the council.
St. George's flags fly from cars
and windows: the World Cup is beginning, England to play Argentina. But
first, a controversial Sunday-league football game must take place, billed
by the press as 'a match to spark a race war: la
Rob, once a professional footballer like his famous fairer, is now a
track-suited teaching assistant, sympathetic to the children of families he
knows too well. On the pitch, as the BNP prowl the touchlines, he finds
himself facing Zubair, the brother of his missing best friend. Both men are
bound together by the mystery of Adnan's disappearance.
In this richly-imagined novel about grass-roots politics, football and the
far right in a multicultural town, Anthony Cartwright audaciously enters the
heartland of post-9/11 Britain.
'The ambi achievement shine forth from every sentence. This is what fiction
should be and what readers want it to be: passionately engaged'
rtg
'HEARTLAND is beautiful, moving and important.
Victories and defeats on and off the pitch are tenderly
rendered in this acute ps a it of identity and community'
NE O'FLYNN, author of WHAT WAS LOST
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