Tramp in Flames (Alemán, Francés)

Following the exceptional acclaim for his first two books, Farley might have been forgiven for resting on his laurels with his ?difficult third? ? but Tramp in Flames instead finds him driving his formal ambition and remarkable imagination harder than ever. A book of considerable emotional daring and sometimes Wordsworthian sweep, Tramp in Flames is the work of a meticulous archivist of our cultural memory, and sets the palimpsest of the present hour on a light-box. It also shows Farley rapidly becoming one of the definitive English voices of the age.
`Resonant without being flashy... lines that will stick with you for a really, really long time` Mark Haddon
`Funny, observant, brilliantly musical... streetwise, erudite, elusive, but very accessible` Ruth Padel, Financial Times
`Farley is one of our most vital and engaging voices. Even a title can twist at the familiar, commanding our attention. He has the knack of both establishing and undermining the securities of memory purely through turn of phrase` W. N. Herbvert, Scotland on Sunday
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