Rough music
By: Patrick Gale
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780007307678
Subjects: Social life and customs; Manners and customs; Family saga; Fiction
Description: Julian, as a small boy, is taken on the perfect Cornish holiday. When glamorous American cousins unexpectedly sweel the party, however, emotions run high and events spiral out of control .Though he has been brought up in the forbidding shadow of the prison his father runs, and though his parents are neither as normal nor as happy as he supposes, Julian's world view is the summily selfish, accepting one of boyhood. It is only when he becomes a man -- seemingly at ease with love, with his sexuality, with his ghosts - that the traumatic effects of that distant summer rise up to challenge his defiant assertion that his is happy and always has been.