Slaughterhouse Heart
Author: Knight, Afsaneh
ISBN: 9780552774659
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Jun 2009
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback / softback
A stunning story of a father and son's lifetime of secrets, lies and heartbreaks - a startlingly original debut from a new and exhilarating literary talent.
What makes a father violent? It takes a brave man to find out . . .
As a volunteer at St Margaret's Hospice, eager and helpful Meryl is looking for a role in life. The arrival of Jamie, the son of a patient, may be just what she is after. He is good-looking, young and, above all, troubled.
Jamie's father has only a few days to live, but between father and son is a lifetime of misunderstanding and unhappiness. Could the most powerful legacy Jamie faces be an inability to love? With well-meaning Meryl hovering in the background, Jamie embarks on his long dark night of the soul, facing the secrets, lies and heartbreaks behind his father's life.
Meanwhile his dying father, seemingly unconscious to it all, relives his extraordinary history, from the triumphs of his life as a boxer, to the onset of a crippling illness he doesn't understand. And in the quiet of the night, he receives strange visitors of his own....
ISBN: 9780552774659
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Jun 2009
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback / softback
A stunning story of a father and son's lifetime of secrets, lies and heartbreaks - a startlingly original debut from a new and exhilarating literary talent.
What makes a father violent? It takes a brave man to find out . . .
As a volunteer at St Margaret's Hospice, eager and helpful Meryl is looking for a role in life. The arrival of Jamie, the son of a patient, may be just what she is after. He is good-looking, young and, above all, troubled.
Jamie's father has only a few days to live, but between father and son is a lifetime of misunderstanding and unhappiness. Could the most powerful legacy Jamie faces be an inability to love? With well-meaning Meryl hovering in the background, Jamie embarks on his long dark night of the soul, facing the secrets, lies and heartbreaks behind his father's life.
Meanwhile his dying father, seemingly unconscious to it all, relives his extraordinary history, from the triumphs of his life as a boxer, to the onset of a crippling illness he doesn't understand. And in the quiet of the night, he receives strange visitors of his own....
