Ten Storey Love Song: A Novel [Paperback]

Ten Storey Love Songis an utterly unique and arresting sophomore novel from Richard Milward, the author of Apples, the sensational bestselling UK debut of 2007. Spanning one dynamite paragraph,Ten Storey Love Songfollows Bobby the Artist’s rise to stardom, offering a cutting and charismatic portrait of a deeply dysfunctional, creative, and drug-sodden world, delivered with great beauty and abandon by “a novelist of great emotional power and deft skill.” (Irvine Welsh)

InTen Storey Love Song, over the course of a single dynamite paragraph, we follow Bobby the Artist's rise to stardom and horrific drug psychosis, as Johnnie attempts to stop thieving and start pleasing Ellen in bed and forty-year-old truck driver Alan Blunt spends a worrisome amount of time patrolling the grounds of the local primary school. And when Bent Lewis, a famous art dealer and mover-shaker from London, appears, Bobby and friends are quickly swept away on a sweaty adventure of self-discovery, hedonism, and violence.

Ten Storey Love Songis a cutting but characteristically charismatic portrait of a deeply dysfunctional, creative, and drug-sodden world, delivered with great beauty and abandon.

Milward has that rare gift of being able to capture and distil an entire generation in a single, simple sentence. Brilliant. Very very funny and utterly original.Milward is a major talent, and his love for his characters shines through any degrading obstacles he forces them to encounter&.Hes also a novelist of great emotional power and deft skill.The narrative moves at a breakneck pace, cleverly moving between characters and finding the right moments to pause for the rare tender moment. Its a high-wire act on a par with the better Irvine Welsh books.