Ellis sharp has a new book out from New Ventures. Nicholas Lezard reviews it for The Guardian:
But other stories pile anything and everything in. One would not have thought an author could link Che Guevara and the Loch Ness monster, but Sharp does. Sharp is sui generis. At times he comes across as if he were a compound hallucination dreamed up by Iain Sinclair, William Burroughs (formulaically only; few drugs and no pederasty here) and . . . well, himself. This might sound like an unappealing mix but I am delighted to have read him. You can trust him because beneath the zaniness, at the level of the sentence, he is very good indeed. This is not magic realism. These are the bad dreams of the 20th century.
Ellis Sharp
July 12, 2009 at 1:39 pmA good review. However, Lezard is quite mistaken in thinking that I am really the book’s editor, Macdonald Daly. Dr Daly is a Glaswegian academic. I am not.
Macdonald Daly
July 13, 2009 at 10:13 amThe book is officially published on 1 August 2009 but is available now from the publisher’s website (free postage and packing to any part of the world). A preview, essentially my Introduction to the stories, is also available there ( go to http://www.new-ventures.net) under the “Fiction” section.