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The Sound of Loneliness, by Craig Wallwork
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Manchester in 1991 is a town suffering under the weight of high unemployment and massive government budgetary deficits that is plunging the UK into a recession. To Daniel Crabtree, a struggling writer, it is the backcloth to his first novel, one that will see him become a famous published author. Living off mostly water and flour, Daniel has embraced penury into his life under the mistaken belief that many young artists have: one needs to suffer for success in art. But Daniel is a terrible writer. In the three years since signing on the dole, of every morning chastising his Irish singing neighbour for waking him from his sleep, and scrounging food from his close friend Henry Soperton, Daniel Crabtree has produced one short story. His heart is bereft of words as much as his pockets are of money.
It is a story of love, and how a poor starving man chasing a dream came to the understanding that amidst the clamour of life, the sound of loneliness is the most deafening of all.
- Sales Rank: #1758265 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-12-31
- Released on: 2012-12-31
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
Craig Wallwork has a strong and steady voice, well deserving your time and attention.
(Dan Fante)
About the Author
Craig Wallwork lives in West Yorkshire, England. He is an artist, filmmaker and writer. His short stories have appeared in many publications in the US and the UK. He is the author of the short story collection Quintessence of Dust, and the novels To Die Upon a Kiss and The Sound of Loneliness. Craig is also the fiction editor at Menacing Hedge Magazine.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Discovering Lost Money in an Old Coat Pocket
By D. B. Cox
I suppose you could imagine the Craig Wallwork novel, The Sound of Loneliness, as an uncomfortable cab ride complete with potholes, gridlock, and one-way streets going the wrong way. The shock absorbers are shot all to hell and the driver is smoking a cheap cigar. But as the reader, you have to sit back, ignore the meter, and try not to anticipate the destination. A cushy ride from point A to point B is not on the mind of Mr. Wallwork. But you will certainly find the trip worthwhile.
In "The Sound of Loneliness," Craig Wallwork paints a dreary landscape where the protagonist, a would-be writer, struggles between ineptitude and delusion where he is never more than a bowl of soup away from being consumed by absolute destitution.
The main character, Daniel, is a not an endearing creation. He is an angry, conceited, arrogant, and sometimes violent young man. He has the soul of an artist, but lacks the talent.
Living hand-to-mouth, always down to nothing, feverish, reeling dizzy from hunger, Wallwork's narrator is part crank and part eccentric whose illusions of grandeur, and Holden Caulfield-like observations of the shortcomings of human nature seem to insure his failure in a society he loathes. He is the victim as well as the architect of his own misfortunes--impulsively driving himself to indulge in the most offensive and inappropriate public behavior.
Mr. Wallwork gets it right as he sets it down in dirty, realistic style, with prose both simple and rich. In concise, economically crafted sentences, he keeps the spotlight on the main character, Daniel, as the other characters in the book come and go acting, primarily, as foils for his disdain. Here, Wallwork truly explores human values through one confused young man's eyes. The deep hatred and bitterness that's the flip side of love is here in its most brutally tragic and truthful form. The author seems out to force readers to face these feelings in themselves, and sometimes it's so right on, it hurts.
The repulsive odors and grubby feel of various settings (Daniel's cheap apartment somewhere in Manchester, England, and Uncle Billy's dank, smelly dwelling) is damn near palpable. You're afraid that if you poke at the page the blood will run and you'll find yourself in an empty belly amidst gas bubbles and lumps of groaning entrails. Not many books bring you into such close physical contact with a character. Through the protagonist's nostrils you will inhale his own noxious body odors. After reading a few chapters, you'll probably find yourself craving some fresh air.
Wallwork manages to explore the psychological side of the main character as he records the whims and the most perverse quirks of his behavior. The indirect focus of this novel might be the one person who is not very often seen--the wielder of the hammer who has shaped the main character's personality. The reader might be left with the obvious question: "What is the sound of loneliness?" I think the answer might come in the final chapter of the book. I believe that it resides inside the scream that rises above the rows of white marble and black granite tombstones of an unkempt cemetery: "Just once, would you be a father!"
In a writing world filled to overflowing with Zombies, Vampires, Werewolves, Wizards, and a huge cast of other miscellaneous fantasy and horror creatures, reading a novel that comes from a "real place" is as fine as discovering lost money in an old coat pocket. Thank you Mr. Wallwork.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Compulsively intimate & Original
By Jody
Superbly written tale!
Terrific Book!
Brilliantly Unique!
Daniel Crabtree is a magnificence main character. He is 'both' the antagonist and protagonist in his own life; which much more closely resembles real life.
The 'feelings', (anger, disappointment, frustration, hopelessness, hope, sadness, etc.), we experience through Daniel are universal --yet somehow Daniel's feels a little more 'extreme'.
I appreciate that the author never asks the reader to feel sorry for Daniel. In fact, you fall in love with *Danny*,(while at the same time want to smack him).
This is the first book I've read by this author. He gives a modern fresh voice and perspective to contemporary fiction. I love it!
People who enjoy J.D. Salinger might really enjoy this book. I think 'everyone' would enjoy it.
Its amusing --and entertaining --as well as powerful!
SIDE NOTE: Being an American ---I got a kick out of the way Craig Wallwork writes. I understand he lives in West Yorkshire, England. (its fun to read his 'SLANT' on words which just don't feel *American-style*).
Lines I smiled at were simple ones like this:
1)"I was *SAT* on the bench, eating a cheese and onion pasty, when she walked past."
2) "Nar fook off out of me sight".
3) "it later to paper".
4) "Take off your fooking shoes".
One of my personal favorite parts of this book was when Daniel was making up a story about a humble pie fitter for his Uncle Billy. (A Story of Mistaken Identity). Soooooo many charming moments on every page.
ANOTHER SIDE NOTE: About the COVER of this book! Its AWESOME!! I just want to keep looking at it!
I kept looking and looking and looking....
THEN...
made a little discovery:
(note I have great close-up vision for a 60 year old fart) --I do not need glasses yet.
I kept trying to read WHAT BOOK was the guy on the cover of "The Sound of Loneliness" reading??
Well, its "The Grapes of Wrath". How PERFECT is THAT!!!!
Here's a quote by John Steinbeck which I think fits 'both' "The Grapes of Wrath" and "The Sound of Loneliness":
"In the eyes of the hungry, there is a growing wrath"
FABULOUS BOOK!!!
Congrats to the author!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Pints and Poseurs at The Flemish Weaver
By Gordon T. Highland
Daniel Crabtree reminds me of Ignatius P. Reilly. He's a self-professed writer who doesn't write, putting all his faith into the acceptance of his lone short story and its journey to non-publication, whilst deriding everything else in his path. Believing that solitude and suffering are the only way to create good art, he subjects himself to impoverished living on the dole, stringing his family along with predictions of his impending literary fame and its lifestyle accoutrements. The guy's quite an ass, though his descriptions of his world are bleakly hilarious and vile.
Wallwork's clever narration outshines his character's abilities, even as he's written in first person. That's my favorite thing about this book, that Crabtree is surrounded by colorful characters and events — if only the character could apply such skillful rendering to his own storytelling in the metadiegetic in-book writing. He does become more human and relatable over the course of the story as he allows himself to forge a couple of meaningful relationships that he knows are ultimately doomed. "Failure is the chisel that shapes a person," as the author says.
There isn't a ton of plot in the book, mostly relying on description, and the pacing races a bit in the third act that I would like to have seen expanded more, but overall I found this very enjoyable with a grim sense of humor and some damn fine writing, which I've come to expect from having read the author's short stories.
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