You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
An unreliable first-person narrative in the tradition of noir writer, Jim Thompson, set in the world of art, wine, and provincial retailSpurned by his illicit lecturer lover, art student Kier Rothwell presents a gruesome effigy of her in the end of year exhibition leading to his removal from the college. Furious at his reduced means and opportunity, Kier (now calling himself New Shockley) is determined to liberate himself from imagined mediocrity, beginning by taking a job at In Vino Veritas, the local wine store. This not only eases his financial situation but offers creative satisfaction in his plan to reinvent the shop as a working art installation. His personalised wine labels make grote...
Covers receipts and expenditures of appropriations and other funds.