And All The Rest Of It

Theo Hendriks

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Why I wrote this book

I wrote the book at a point in my life when I felt an ever stronger sense of loss - both in the personal and the social spheres - and became increasingly disillusioned with modern trends and developments, something I believe I may have in common with a lot of (potential) readers

Which three authors’ work would you compare your writing to?

Under the Volcano, by Malcolm Lowry; Leaving Las Vegas, by John O'Brien; The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner. ( cf. also TV: The Singing Detective by Dennis Potter).

Synopsis

An elderly writer, driven by fear, guilt and loneliness, seeks an alternative existence to that which he fails to understand. At odds with an ever-changing world, and unsure of his place within that world, he sets out on a journey of self-discovery. This is not just a flight from familiar or expected evils, but a search for new or forgotten values, an attempt to find a spiritual landscape in which he feels comfortable and human. Moving from the town to a wilderness, through landscapes of beauty and grief, life becomes a blur of dream and reality, madness and sanity, memory and illusion. As he feels that the net is closing in on him, he has only his anger and humour to ward off his despair. This nightmarish portrait is of a man and modernity, painted in colours of sickness and death, of pursuit and imprisonment. A modern-day tale of persecution and paranoia.

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