Hang Him When He Is Not There - by Nicholas John Turner (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>New Year's Eve, 1989. At a residential care home in suburban Australia, fireworks explode in the distance while an elderly man dies in troubling circumstances. Decades later, a proof-reader, disfigured by a childhood accident, prepares to meet a celebrated and reclusive novelist.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>New Year's Eve, 1989. At a residential care home in suburban Australia, fireworks explode in the distance while an elderly man dies in troubling circumstances. Decades later, a proof-reader, disfigured by a childhood accident, prepares to meet a celebrated and reclusive novelist. Between these two figures a subtle and intricate web is woven, implicating the members of a mystical cult, the victim of a beheading, an impostor artist, and the enigmatic presence known only as Agent Vell.</p><p><em>Hang Him When He Is Not There</em> is a novel unlike any other. With keen intelligence, stylistic flair, and a bold philosophy of literary possibilities, Nicholas John Turner has crafted a globe-spanning, time-bending narrative that throws its own readers into the action and scours the darkest reaches of the human psyche: jealousy, betrayal, duplicity, cowardice, and -- above all -- vanity.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Truly original and daring.</p><p>Luke Stegeman<br /> author of <em>The Beautiful Obscure</em></p><p> </p><p>One of the boldest Australian literary débuts of recent years. ... Intricately patterned, intertextual, reflexive, multivocal, bleakly mordant... a narrative splayed and atomised, yet strung together by tangling motifs and voices; a fiction that forks in multiple directions before coiling back together in a snake-like constriction; [a novel that] doubles and fractures the shards of narrative until the whole comes to resemble a mirror that has been smashed and then imperfectly restored.</p><p>Shannon Burns<br /> <em>The Weekend Australian</em></p><p> </p><p>Darkly humorous, impish, elusive, and intimate. ... A fresh, electrifying, perplexing, flamboyant cornucopia of self-reflexive text.</p><p>Eugene Bacon<br /> <em>Antic Magazine</em></p><p> </p><p>Smart and playful. ... A curious book that will get you thinking and feeling.</p><p>Daniel Young<br /> <em>Tincture</em></p><p> </p><p>Intricate and subtly interwoven. <em>Hang Him When He Is Not There</em> is not a safe first work of fiction. Rather, it takes risks and challenges conventions masterfully.</p><p>Bonnie Stevens<br /> <em>Mous Magazine</em></p><p> </p><p>Intellectually playful. ... Keeps readers enthralled with [its] deep complexity and originality.</p><p>Kim Hellberg<br /> <em>The West End Magazine</em></p><p> </p><p>Highly original and complex. ... Elusively intriguing. ... There is a fascinating mind to be discovered within these pages.</p><p>Elaine Fry<br /> <em>The West Australian</em></p><p> </p><p>A dazzling, daring novel. I was completely taken aback. The inten-sity of the reading experience it affords is simply astonishing.</p><p>Martin Shaw<br /> <em>The Books Desk</em></p><p> </p><p>Exceptional and challenging. ... One of those books that turns our preconceptions of literature inside-out and expands the limits of what the artform can do. ... When I read it, it gave me that feeling of a first encounter with a truly singular intelligence. Unique. Uncompromising. Absolutely self-possessed, fully confident in the integrity of its one-of-a-kind literary vision. It is the real deal--a novel that offers all the rewards of the very best literature while also breaking all the old rules.</p><p>Daniel Davis Wood<br /> author of <em>Blood and Bone</em></p><br>
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