Man on fire
Kelman, Stephen, 1976-2015
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John Lock has come to India to meet his destiny: a destiny dressed in a white karate suit and sporting an impressive moustache. He has fled the quiet desperation of his life in England: decades wasted in a meaningless job, a marriage foundering in the wake of loss and a terrible secret he cannot bear to share with his wife. He has come to offer his help to a man who has learned to conquer pain, a world record breaker who specialises in feats of extreme endurance and ill-advised masochism. Bibhuti Nayak's next record attempt - to have fifty baseball bats broken over his body - will set the seal on a career that has seen him rise from poverty to become a minor celebrity in a nation where standing out from the crowd requires tenacity, courage, and perhaps a touch of madness.
Main title:
Man on fire / Stephen Kelman.
Author:
Kelman, Stephen, 1976-, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Circus, 2015.
Collation:
296 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781408865460 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
LC class:
PR6111.E524
Local class:
FICFTF
Language:
English
BRN:
462686
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