Stewart weaves dream and reality, false and true memory into a compelling, challenging study of one ordinary man’s failure to cope with the secrets of his past as they force their way into the present.
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John Matthews is a happily married college lecturer, living in Bristol with his successful wife, Penny.
The couple, now in their early thirties, are trying for a baby.
All this is seemingly inexplicably threatened when John is stopped short by seeing a familiar haircut on the street. This insignificant encounter triggers a decline over a single week into depression and near insanity as memories and nightmares, all connected to a past repressed relationship, overwhelm him and threaten his otherwise stable life.
In this compelling work of contemporary literary fiction, Stewart weaves dream and reality, false and true memory into a challenging psychological drama of one ordinary man’s failure to cope with the secrets of his past as they force their way into the present.
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Matthew Feldman, professor in the modern history of ideas, Teesside University, is reading Paul Stewart’s Now Then (Armida, 2014). “Powerfully written debut novel by a noted Beckett scholar. Shades of the Irishman’s opacity abound in this psychologically deft account of a week’s remorseless descent into near-madness. Shards of often-unreliable memories cut progressively deeper each day, as the narrator’s past failings drag his present into an accusatory darkness. Heavy-going, but well worth the effort.”
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