Displacement

Résumé du livre

Martin Hacklett is at the bottom of London's pile - working-class and white, poor and uneducated, ignored and alienated.

But he is bright and an athlete, and at nights becomes the London Leaper, free-running the capital's roofline in defiance of death, seeking escape from a culture that doesn't care for him or his kind.

As he charges fiercely across the iconic skyline of what should be his city, he becomes a focus of fascination and fear, and troubles the sleep and conscience of the unquiet metropolis.

But underneath his night-time persona, is a young man desperate to be accepted.

Can Martin find a way to integrate himself and his passion back into society?

Or will he always be separate and alone, a shadowy figure displaced to the outskirts...'

In 'Displacement' ancient and modern London clash and combine in a poetry of perilous motion. It is a thought-provoking look at sanctuaries we choose to help us cope with our individual situations, and a poignant examination of how those sanctuaries are too often thwarted by our own efforts.

"A novel that engages in a non-stereotype manner to face fairly the issues of Britain's white working class" - Rt. Hon. Frank Field, MP

"Powerfully and memorably evokes a threatened subculture in a rapidly altering London, as the Cockney is pushed to the edges of English life" - Garry Bushell, journalist

"A highly atmospheric evocation of twenty-first century alienation" - Chilton Williamson, Jr., novelist and editor of Chronicles - A Magazine of American Culture

Derek Turner has written for The Times, Daily Mail, Sunday Telegraph, Literary Review, Country Life, and many other journals in Europe and America. He is also the author of the novel Sea Changes. You can see more about Derek here: http://www.derek-turner.com/.

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