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- Herausgeber: Dedalus
- Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
- Sprache: Englisch
The Romeo and Juliet story of teenage love which cuts across all social barriers is transported to modern-day Bristol. The novel is dominated by the mesmerising and beautiful Daizee Byatt, the daughter of a drug addict who makes a living as a prostitute. At 15 Daizee Byatt has already seen too much of the bad things of life and then she meets the sweet, innocent 14 year-old Franky on his way home from school. This is a novel about the darker side of contemporary life and modern Britain's underclass. Xavier Leret was born and bred in Bristol. He is the former Artistic Director of the Award Winning Ensemble Kaos Theatre. Writing and directing credits include The Fantastical Adventures of Leonardo da Vinci, Renaissance (a Millennium Award Winner), Isle of Dogs, Thirst, Alice, Caligula, Swing, Moll Flanders, Metropolis, and an adaptation of Bulgakov's The Master & Margarita (nominated for the best production on the Dublin Fringe and an Edinburgh Fringe First). He has written and directed two feature films, Mine and Kung Fu Flid, the world's first 'cripsploitation' movie, starring thalidomide actor Mat Fraser. He now lives quietly in a small Hamlet not far from Bishops Stortford. The Romeo And Juliet Killers is his first novel.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015
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The Romeo & Juliet Killers
Xavier Leret was born and bred in Bristol.
He has written and directed two feature films and numerous theatre productions. He now lives in a small village not far from Bishops Stortford.
The Romeo & Juliet Killers is his first novel.
For Sharon
“The latter contemplated the carnage (fragments of red flesh in the prairie, yellow flowers, men in black suits), sighed gently and turned around to his companion, saying, ‘it’s a moral duty, John’.”
Michel Houellebecq
The Possibility of An Island
Contents
Title
Dedication
Quote
Act I
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Act II
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Act III
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Act IV
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Act V
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Copyright
Act I
1
He was on his way home from school, walking with his head down, his sports holdall slung over his shoulder and he was terrified. A letter was going to be arriving the very next morning that would throw his parents into a puritanical fury. A teacher at his Catholic Free School had caught him watching a filthy movie on a friend’s mobile phone.
Some parents might laugh off such lurid transgressions, perhaps even celebrate the sexual awakening of their sons. Many of the parents of his pals, he was sure, would do just that. But not his. Not in a month of Sundays. His parents being religiously strict in the most steadfast sense. His pals all had mobile phones and game consoles and their own computers in their rooms, and would regularly swap just about anything personal across innumerable social networking platforms. Many of them also seemed to have vast collections of dirty movies on their phones, some of which involved themselves, well that’s what they claim. He wasn’t allowed none of these. His mum was particularly disparaging of mobile phones and the internet claiming that they are like the many heads of the beast as chronicled by St John The Apostle in the Apocalypse, and would often argue that he was simply not old enough to withstand such temptations. His dad would rant on too, about the dissolute ravages of contemporary society and modern life.
But worse than this was that now he felt raw with shame, wishing that he was stronger, better able to fight temptation, better able to understand his own body, knowing only too well, and indeed, fearing what his parents might say about his sexual awakenings, a topic he had never once dared to discuss with them, and an issue of his development they had never once raised with him. Were it not for the movies that he watched during his lunchtimes he would be entirely in the dark and out on a limb as to how to deal with girls and, more specifically, the passions that were raging within him. With his friends, in the playground, he achieved not just camaraderie but a sense that what he was experiencing was normal.
He walked and looked at the houses to either side of him and wondered what happened behind the windows, whether all family life was the same as his family life, whether their lives were populated by shouts and screams, visions, scourges, blood, demons, eternal damnation.
