FREE to download TODAY is Jog
On Fat Barry
by Kevin
Cotter (Click
here for UK Download). Why not download it before it goes back to
full price?
BOOK DESCRIPTION
The 10 short stories that make up Jog On Fat Barry symbolize the mishmash
of difficulty that face people trying to muddle through an increasingly complex
world, and each one of them comes entwined with odd and curious characters
crossing seamlessly from one story to the next. Cotter’s diction is both brutal
and blunt; it will cause offence to some readers, but the text is also vividly
rich with a vernacular seldom heard. There is nothing Disneyfied in the
narratives. They do not end happily. Still, for readers who are able to stomach
veracity without it having to be sugarcoated, each story resides in a place that
is candid and sincere. True, murder and deception are commonplace, and liberty
is, all too often, sacrificed for little more than simple honour, but redemption
abounds in Cotter’s scenarios, and his stories offer an emancipation of sorts to
characters shackled by man’s indifference to his fellow man. The sordid streets
of New York, LA, and London are the backdrop for these tales of crime amidst
broken lives where the lost and forlorn battle to better their lot. It is a
wake-up call to people who have their heads buried in the sand, and a sad
reminder that the fish will always rot from the head
downwards.
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