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| Title: | The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson (Book 1)
: Second Edition |
| Author: | Douglas Lindsay |
| ISBN: | 0954138791 : 9780954138790 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 130x195mm |
| Pages: | 181 |
| Weight: | .146 Kg. |
| Published: | Long Midnight Publishing - November 2008 |
| List Price: | 6.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Crime & mystery |
Ten years on from its initial release comes a new edition of the cult comedy, which The Scotsman described as "gleefully macabre, hugely enjoyable black burlesque". Published to critical acclaim in early 1999, the book has spawned a successful series, has been translated into several European languages and is currently in development to be a major Hollywood motion picture. Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity. Shunned at work and at home, unable to break out of a twenty year rut, each dull day blends seamlessly into the next. However, there is no life so tedious that it cannot be spiced up by inadvertent murder, a deranged psychopath, and a freezer full of neatly packaged meat. Barney Thomson’s uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer…
"This chilling black comedy unfolds at dizzying speed. An impressive debut novel." -- Sunday Mirror "Lindsay has succeeded magnificently" -- Time Out "Sure-fire top ten material" -- The Face "The plot, Russian literature fans, is a modern spin on Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment. The bloody ending, movie buffs, is pure Reservoir Dogs." -- The Mirror "Pitch black comedy spun from the finest writing. Fantastic plot, unforgettable scenes and plenty of twisted belly laughs." -- New Woman
