Echo cycle
Edwards, Patrick2020
Book
2070. A dozen English public schoolboys on a school trip to Rome in a prosperous and technologically advanced Europe worlds away from a post-Brexit Britain marred by food shortages, poverty and a totalitarian state. Outsider Miliband Monk is captivated by the gleaming metropolis, and desperate to stay out of the way of his tormentors, who bully him for his sexuality in ultra-conservative Britain, and longs for what he sees as the liberal utopia of modern Europe. When a life-changing shock leads him to pound a bullying classmate and dramatically injure him, and Monk flees into the city, and vanishes completely. Twenty-five years later, Monk's best friend Banks returns to Rome part of a rare diplomatic mission to the continent, and meets a wild-haired vagrant whom he realises is a much aged, haggard Monk, who claims he has been in ancient Rome for all these years, living under the Caesars.
Main title:
Echo cycle / Patrick Edwards.
Author:
Edwards, Patrick, author
Work:
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
London : Titan Books, 2020.
Collation:
335 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781785658815 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
Related title:
Echo cycle
BRN:
399764