No Fireworks
Abe Stone is a 61 year old alcoholic with a Henry VIII fixation going through his third divorce. When he starts receiving letters from his dead mother, Evelyn, he is thrown into a late-stage identity crisis. His fourteen-year old grand-daughter, Lucille, is expelled from school and the unlikely couple embark on a quest to work out what Evelyn is trying to impart and how Abe can begin to put his dishevelled life in order.
Rodge Glass was born in 1978 and is originally from Cheshire, where most of his large, many-tentacled family still lives. He is the product of an Orthodox Jewish Primary School, an 11+ All Boys Grammar School, a Co-Ed Private School, a Monk-sponsored Catholic College, a Jerusalem classroom, Kibbutz Yahel in the Israeli desert, Strathclyde University and finally Glasgow University. Against his better judgement, he is about to re-enter the education system to do a PhD. After 12 torturous months in a small quasi-semi off the English M62, Rodge has now escaped back to Glasgow's West End, moving into a plush flat he can't afford and will soon be moving out of.
Author: Rodge Glass
Format: Paperback, 288 pages, 128mm x 198mm, 230 g
Published: 2006, Faber & Faber, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
Abe Stone is a 61 year old alcoholic with a Henry VIII fixation going through his third divorce. When he starts receiving letters from his dead mother, Evelyn, he is thrown into a late-stage identity crisis. His fourteen-year old grand-daughter, Lucille, is expelled from school and the unlikely couple embark on a quest to work out what Evelyn is trying to impart and how Abe can begin to put his dishevelled life in order.
Rodge Glass was born in 1978 and is originally from Cheshire, where most of his large, many-tentacled family still lives. He is the product of an Orthodox Jewish Primary School, an 11+ All Boys Grammar School, a Co-Ed Private School, a Monk-sponsored Catholic College, a Jerusalem classroom, Kibbutz Yahel in the Israeli desert, Strathclyde University and finally Glasgow University. Against his better judgement, he is about to re-enter the education system to do a PhD. After 12 torturous months in a small quasi-semi off the English M62, Rodge has now escaped back to Glasgow's West End, moving into a plush flat he can't afford and will soon be moving out of.