Stump
  • Published: 31 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446476550
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

Stump

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31 May 2011
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5 Jun 2017
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Black farce from the author of Kelly + Victor and Sheepshagger.

A newcomer has arrived in a small Welsh seaside town - a one-armed Liverpudlian. Seeking to rebuild his life, if not his body, he is attempting to lead a life here unlike any he's lived before: a normal one - shopping, gardening, signing on, visiting friends, all the usual diurnal activities.

Over a hundred miles to the north, however, two men in shellsuits are leaving Liverpool, heading south in a rickety old car. They have been sent by their gang-boss to wreak terrible, violent revenge, but have only a rough idea of their quarry: a one-armed man, maybe living somewhere in west Wales, in a small town by the sea.
  • Published: 31 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446476550
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240
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About the author

Niall Griffiths

Niall Griffiths was born in Liverpool in 1966 and now lives in Wales. He has published seven previous novels: Grits, Sheepshagger, Kelly + Victor, Stump, Wreckage, Runt and A Great Big Shining Star.

Also by Niall Griffiths

Of Talons and Teeth
Broken Ghost
A Great Big Shining Star
Runt
Wreckage
Sheepshagger
Kelly + Victor
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Praise for Stump

He is an epic and, at moments, visionary writer-Griffiths, through this man's gentle but raging voice, gives one of the great depictions of alcoholism

Toby Litt, Guardian

Niall Griffiths is an actual literary star. He writes with vim and sympathy about the things young people do

Daily Telegraph

In the top rank of contemporary British authors...He brings tremendous rhythm and energy to his prose

Herald

Stump is the author's gentlest and funniest book by far-He has a prose style as compelling and seductive as any writer in the land

Big Issue

The range of Griffiths's achievement is as exhilarating as the reach of his ambition

Guardian