Pope And Her Lady
$17.95
[quote style=”boxed”]Rooke has never been reluctant to enter dangerous terrain; he has shunned the familiar, the conventional, the commonplace. He seeks, in wonderfully cadenced prose – “rhythmic, hammering, mellifluous, and grand” – the risky, the untried, the new. This stylish virtuoso “demonstrates that he is simply not like any other writer out there… Of Ten, out of the darkest and most moribund situation, he wrestles a startling and uncanny beauty.” —Douglas Glover, Globe and Mail, 2009[/quote]
The assured magic of Rooke’s voice is palpable, it is poignant: each nuance is molded to impose the power of that magic.
So he has done again, in this extraordinary novella, about a lesbian couple, Mady and Pope, habitués of Glasgow’s grim streets. Mady has been viciously murdered. Pope is in police custody, the lone suspect. In another writer’s hands, this stock situation might have yielded a book as ordinary in its pursuits as a pedestrian TV drama. But Rooke pours out his tale in Glasgow’s very own amazing street slang, empow- ering Mady and Pope – and a wide range of other misfits – with a strange, startling beauty.
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