Corona Man
Subtitle: A Fictional Verse Journal in the Plague Year
Edition: First edition
Publisher: The Cornovia Press; Cornovia Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Sheffield, UK
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9781908878182
Copyright date: 2020
Description: John Trenear, an 84 year old widower, lives alone in a bleak London tower block. He has turned away from a world he finds alien, its customs and beliefs so different from the Christian simplicities of his Cornish childhood. He tweets not, neither does he watch TV. Consequently, when the coronavirus strikes and lockdown is imposed, he has no idea what is happening; Corona to him means only the fizzy soft drink he enjoyed as a child. On VE Day there are no Corona bottles being opened with an explosion of fizz, as they had in the merry street party he remembers: indeed the streets below his flat are incomprehensibly empty. But the day brings him added confusion and distress, for it appears that something called a ‘hate crime’ has been committed. Corona Man, a study of old age, confusion and isolation, is both very poignant and very funny.