Man on fire
By: Stephen Kelman
Edition: Large print edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9781510014701
Subjects: Celebrities; British; Fiction
Description: John Lock has come to India to meet his destiny: a destiny dressed in a white karate suit and sporting an impressive moustache. He has fled the quiet desperation of his life in England: decades wasted in a meaningless job, a marriage foundering in the wake of loss and a terrible secret he cannot bear to share with his wife. He has come to offer his help to a man who has learned to conquer pain, a world record breaker who specialises in feats of extreme endurance and ill-advised masochism. Bibhuti Nayak's next record attempt - to have fifty baseball bats broken over his body - will set the seal on a career that has seen him rise from poverty to become a minor celebrity in a nation where standing out from the crowd requires tenacity, courage, and perhaps a touch of madness.
Notes: Standard print edition originally published: London: Bloomsbury Circus.