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| Original Title: | Jukebox ASIN B00TISPEJ2 |
| Edition Language: | English |
Saira Viola
Kindle Edition | Pages: 252 pages Rating: 4.39 | 57 Users | 33 Reviews
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| Title | : | Jukebox: a stylish London crime novel |
| Author | : | Saira Viola |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 252 pages |
| Published | : | February 11th 2015 by Bloodhound Books |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Crime. Unfinished |
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A rookie lawyer, crime mogul and junior reporter all converge in London's underworld of glamour, crime and greed. Set in a city rocked by corruption and tabloid excess, one of them is going to learn that sometimes in life you get more than you bargained forJukebox is Saira Viola's brilliant full length debut novel.
"A great amount has been done in literature over the years but every now and then someone comes along and shows us a completely different approach to the ancient art of the scribe . So hail Saira Viola and discover her twisted and beautiful imagination. Literature needs Saira Viola . Her writing is sharp direct and gripping. The latest research shows there is no one like her." Benjamin Zephaniah
" A fresh faced voice to herald in the apocalypse .Posers beware .This is the real deal." Jonathan Shaw
"Injecting musical prose into a dying genre and one sorely needing a shot in the arm .What Viola has proven is the great novel is not incompatible with virtuosic poetics."
James Browning Kepple
"I enjoyed this piece's in-your-face quality."
Robin Wyatt Dunn
"Guy Ritchie meets Martin Amis.......stunning."
Betsy Reavley
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Ratings: 4.39 From 57 Users | 33 ReviewsJudgment Containing Books Jukebox: a stylish London crime novel
A fabulous new writer!Very visual, from the outset it felt like I had been grabbed by the throat hard. As a film buff, it would be great to see this on the big screen.The narrative was excellent with great use of appropriate language. The dialogue was pitched exactly right. I especially loved the chapter headings and references to music, and was in admiration of the metaphors and attention to detail.At the start the antagonists violent speech was a promise of things to come, and the authorA Dickensian novel unlike any other I've read this year . Viola expertly blends satirical mobsters with the heave and hiss of Legal London . The theatrical attention to character detail is exemplary : but we are also given an ugly reminder of the superficiality of modern values as the various subplots seek to undermine contemporary society . This is a London far removed from one we may be used to a Dickensian London that peddles porn prostitution new age politics and the threat of bigotry and
When such literary superstars like Benjamin Zephaniah , Jonathan Shaw and the amazing poet Heathcote Williams laud praise on a new book you know you have to read it . And I wasn't disappointed. Amazing descriptions of people and place . I have been a teacher of Eng lit for years , all I can really say is Viola is a new voice in a dying genre. Popular culture is savagely dissected and brilliantly parodied.Real, clever and annoyingly stylish . It defies genres and lives up to the hype .A rare
A great book for crime lovers, surrealists and post modern fiction enthusiasts .Unique and brilliantly told 5 stars.
Dark , brilliant , uncompromisingly real but exquisitely written .The book has it all : love , drama , intrigue and a raw vicious exploration of society . It throws British life under the spotlight but it could be anywhere . You'll laugh , you'll cry and be sickened and mesmerised .
Saira Viola delivers a psychedelic, scary, funny, and at times cosmic and gritty thriller. She's a unique and powerful voice. Terrific.
If writing is a true art form, Sara Viola is definitely an artist. She does a excellent job painting a picture of London's society in some of the seediest, darkest lives that meander through the streets, the pubs, the restaurants, and she does it with alluding to songs and films in a way that validates both Viola's knowledge of pop culture and her ability to effectively use that knowledge as part of her palette to paint a picture with words.As a reader not familiar with the London's urban
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