The Audio system

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Heathcote Williams’s literary debut was immediately hailed as a masterpiece, with Harold Pinter describing it as ‘sensible…a exceptional achievement and really, very humorous’.

For the ‘Sunday Instances’ it’s, ‘A hair-raising ebook which fits straight into the literature of vagrancy alongside Celine and Genet’; William S Burroughs described it as ‘A superb job of listening, seeing and writing’ whereas VS Pritchett known as it, ‘A really authentic Beckettish documentary’. Anthony Burgess wrote, ‘This can be a ebook which requires no concessions, no patronising indulgence. It could stand fairly confidently within the onerous Sophoclean gentle’.

Written when the creator was simply 22, it paperwork the actions and lives of 4 fiercely eccentric, but compellingly eloquent, common audio system at London’s Hyde Park Nook within the Nineteen Sixties.

These embrace MacGuiness (‘I’m NOT a paranoiac. Everone IS taking a look at me) and Van Dyn (‘In case you do not know who I’m, I’m the person who was over there a second in the past’)

Peripheral characters within the surreal world of ‘The Audio system’ embrace the ‘Singing Lady’ and the ‘man with the Silent Message’.

This distinctive ebook, with its Blakeian imaginative and prescient and wry celebration of uncooked humanity, is a literary basic of the 20 th century.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B073X17R6F
Writer ‏ : ‎ Skinny Man Press (July 12, 2017)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 12, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File measurement ‏ : ‎ 645 KB
Textual content-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Display screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Phrase Sensible ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print size ‏ : ‎ 172 pages