Byron Easy Ebook Ä 512 pages Download Ò Jude cook

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Byron Easy Ebook Ä 512 pages Download Ò Jude cook ✓ [Reading] ➼ Byron Easy Author Jude Cook – Dogsalonbristol.co.uk It’s December 24th 1999 Byron Easy a poverty stricken poet half drunk and suicidal sits on a train at King’s Cross Station waiting to depart In his lap is a backpack containing his remIt’s December th Byron Easy a poverty stricken poet half drunk and suicidal sits on a train at King’s Cross Station waiting to depart In his lap is a backpack containing his remaining worldly goods an empty wine bottle a few books a handful of crumpled banknotes As the journey commences he conjures Byron Easy is a modern Byronic hero with all the snarky personality and traumatic family history of the late 19th century poet Lord Byron It’s not just that Cook has drawn a Byronic character flawlessly but that at the same time he’s conjured everyone's broken story You hold this weighty book in your hands lying in bed with the lid of an ugly past ripped off No daylight to scorch out the feelings that hit too close to home no busy errands or calls to make People in the present to keep you grounded in the here and now When the author addresses the reader it breaks the bounds of a fictional story in a good way reminding you that you are not Byron Easy Life is good The storyline follows Byron Easy as he takes a train north to visit family he doesn’t want to see The story is like a familiar bridge between childhood trauma and the inevitable first failed marriage The lost twenties where you have to pull yourself up and out of your own garbage Each stop along the way unearths some fresh memory of his childhood and recent but very necessary divorce from Mandy the ball buster She’s everything men hate about women all wrapped up into one anti christ of a wife Without a redeeming bone in her body she drags our wimpy protagonist through the narrow streets of their shitty London neighborhood without even a whiff of conscious It’s easy to feel sorry for Byron but at times you want to slap some man into him much like his masculine wife If Lord Byron were alive today I think he'd love this modern take on his life story and character A warning to writers You may feel compelled to throw your keyboard through a window after reading this book as Cook’s prose is some of the most elouent sarcasm you’ll ever read