The Halt During the Chase
$36.12
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
27 August 2024
Summary
Finally back in print, a shockingly wry and funny coming-of-age novel from the inimitable Rosemary Tonks, author of The Bloater.
Brilliantly funny and brutal, this is the story of one woman’s escape from the clutches of polite society, by the incredible mid-century writer who destroyed her own books.
“No matter her insistence that she just dashed them off to make ‘a lot of red-hot money’ - Tonks’s novels are thrillingly strange things. She had the knack.” - London Review o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784879303 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784879304 |
| Author: | Rosemary Tonks |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 27 August 2024 |
| Weight: | 172g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 16mm |
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Critics Review
Her writing captured the pungent, punchy essence of that city in the Swinging Sixties * Paris Review *
The Tonks character is always trapped. As proud as Lucifer, and trapped. She may be on holiday in Italy with friends, or laid up with gout, she can as little escape as a character in a play can escape the footlights and the stage – Michael Hoffman * Poetry Foundation *
The Halt During the Chase is packed with potent imagery, wry remarks and liberatory energy
About The Author
Rosemary Tonks
Rosemary Tonks (1928-2014) was a colourful figure in the London literary scene during the 1960s. She published two poetry collections, Notes on Cafes and Bedrooms and Iliad of Broken Sentences, and six novels, from Opium Fogs to The Halt During the Chase. Tonks wrote for the Observer, The Times, New York Review of Books, Listener, New Statesman and Encounter, and presented poetry programmes for the BBC.
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