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Island : A Novel by Rogers, Jane is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA From Publishers Weekly "When I was twenty-eight I decided to kill my mother." This sixth book from Rogers (Promised Lands; Mr. Wroe's Virgins) is a caustically memorable literary shocker, built tightly around its antiheroic narrator. Abandoned at birth and shuttled among foster homes around Birmingham, Nikki Black (a name she chose for herself because it had "teeth") decided in her teens to remain at a children's home rather than suffer the ministrations of hypocritical caregivers. To call her unsympathetic is putting it mildly: the grown-up Nikki hates everyone, using whomever she needs for sex, sleeping space or money, and connecting emotionally with no one. She has one purpose in life: to find her real mother (listed on her birth certificate as Phyllis Lovage), ask her why she abandoned her, and then kill her. A financial windfall lets Nikki track Phyllis down to the small, remote Scottish island of Ayssar, where she rents her spare room out to boarders. Herself dying from cancer, Phyllis makes money by selling herbal remedies; she uses the funds to care for her slightly retarded son, Calum. Nikki

Who reads Island : A Novel?

Author

Rogers, Jane

Publisher

The Overlook Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781585670765

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Thriller, Other Thrillers Categories