{"id":12289,"date":"2011-02-23T17:55:46","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T16:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=12289"},"modified":"2011-06-01T17:53:08","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T16:53:08","slug":"alone-desperate-and-going-nowhere-paul-haworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=12289","title":{"rendered":"Alone, Desperate and Going Nowhere – Paul Haworth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alone, Desperate and Going Nowhere – Paul Haworth<\/em><\/p>\n

Alex \u2018Abs\u2019 Brenchley is back. The seven-foot tragedy opens the sequel to Silk Handkerchiefs with the words \u201c2008 was the worst year of my life.\u201d This is the story of that year.<\/p>\n

Neon and doors \u2013 I\u2019m dead, hell, we\u2019re being pumped in by the dozen \u2013 I don\u2019t belong here! \u2013 yes you do, sex fiend \u2013 to a tight passage \u2013 bundles of us trying to get out \u2013 bottle-necked against a tunnel of lights \u2013 the triple-X, neon and doors, passages to perdition \u2013 I shuffle with the masses \u2013 nearly there \u2013 I notice…a woman \u2013 or she notices me \u2013 our eyes meet, skinny, late thirties, she is squatting in a doorway, eating a burger, she speaks: \u201cDo you have trouble with the ladies, sir?\u201d<\/p>\n

Alone, Desperate and Going Nowhere sweeps our hyper-emotional hero across England, into the depths of despair and deranged behaviour, towards a mythical destination \u2013 The Lady Field \u2013 a fabled area of Hampstead Heath where it isn\u2019t just men who are cruising. Carnforth yobs, Sex and the City: The Movie, dogging fanatics, Christian Slater, Community Support Officers and the Page Street Gang \u2013 these are just some of the forces Alex is up against as he seeks to find the manhood, absolution and purpose in life that will empower him to win the love of Trevoreesia, his Absqueen.<\/p>\n

All the while, the economy is collapsing \u2013 \u201cMy life had been in crisis for so long and now the world was catching up,\u201d observes Alex \u2013 and the soundtrack to this far-gone era is Take That\u2019s cruel taunt: THIS COULD BE THE GREATEST DAY OF OUR LIVES. Does that day come for Alex Brenchley or will he remain, always and forever, Alone, Desperate and Going Nowhere?<\/p>\n

Mixing Cockney, teen lingo, Victorian slang and inventive wordplay, Haworth\u2019s colourful style makes for an exhilarating and addictive read. This is the second part in a trilogy of comedic novels about Alex Brenchley.<\/p>\n

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Alone, Desperate and Going Nowhere – Paul Haworth Alex \u2018Abs\u2019 Brenchley is back. The seven-foot tragedy opens the sequel to Silk Handkerchiefs with the words \u201c2008 was the worst year of my life.\u201d This is the story of that year. Neon and doors \u2013 I\u2019m dead, hell, we\u2019re being pumped in by the dozen \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[634,1,252],"tags":[5493,653],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12289"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12289"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12298,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12289\/revisions\/12298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}