Friday, March 09, 2007

Where are they now

Why isn't The Aerodrome by Rex Warner in print? Last seen at Harvill press (now sadly deceased - well, swallowed up). I remember reading it at school when I was 8 and thought it a bit of a cracker but don't take my word for it,

'Brilliantly imaginative ... it remains the best, perhaps the only, English Kafka novel.' Anthony Burgess.

And how could you not like a book that describes life as only ‘a brief and dazzling flash of time between two annihilations’

C'mon publishers, we can sell this you know.

2 comments:

  1. Adam - that Reform CLub gig has had a strange effect on you.

    Remember - money money money.

    Publishers want to make money.

    It's only idiots like us who put other considerations first!

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  2. Vintage will be publishing it as part of its classics line in late 2007. There is hope out there....

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