Some Love

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'Nobody paid the slightest attention to him. Being a small kid, he realized gratefully, was the nearest thing to being invisible.'
Johnnie Hunslett, in and out of care since the age of nine, has taught himself to be a survivor. Accustomed to trusting no one in his bleak, deadend existence, he becomes unwillingly intrigued by Tina Blecher, a single parent in his highrise block. So begins a humorous and edgy relationship between this alienated fourteen-year-old and a young woman of thirty who is disenchanted with men.
Some Love is a tightly drawn, deeply moving portrayal of family breakdown and the consequences of emotional deprivation, touched with those moments of redemption in the midst of ordinary life which characterize Callow's work. There is pathos and wit as well as harsh truth running through this story of urban loneliness, involving as it does a group of people all looking for the love and warmth we need as human beings.
Francis King has described Philip Callow as 'A... Tovább

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'Nobody paid the slightest attention to him. Being a small kid, he realized gratefully, was the nearest thing to being invisible.'
Johnnie Hunslett, in and out of care since the age of nine, has taught himself to be a survivor. Accustomed to trusting no one in his bleak, deadend existence, he becomes unwillingly intrigued by Tina Blecher, a single parent in his highrise block. So begins a humorous and edgy relationship between this alienated fourteen-year-old and a young woman of thirty who is disenchanted with men.
Some Love is a tightly drawn, deeply moving portrayal of family breakdown and the consequences of emotional deprivation, touched with those moments of redemption in the midst of ordinary life which characterize Callow's work. There is pathos and wit as well as harsh truth running through this story of urban loneliness, involving as it does a group of people all looking for the love and warmth we need as human beings.
Francis King has described Philip Callow as 'A born writer, every one of whose paragraphs is shaped with conscious artistry'; and Isabel Quigly writing in the Financial Times about his previous novel. The Painter's Confessions, commented that 'Callow has a voice which is very much his own; he shows not just intense nervous energy but what seems to be painful nerve ends, an openness to feeling, to suffering and joy at simple, almost primitive levels. What moves him moves the reader. The slant of the world seems his; he has a hold on nature, on the root of feeling.'
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Philip Callow was born in 1924 in Birmingham and has published twelve novels, several volumes of short stories and poems as well as two biographies: Son and Lover: The Young D.H. Lawrence and most recently. Van Gogh: A Life. His work has consistently received the highest critical acclaim.

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Jacket design by Mick Keates Illustration by Colin Williams Photograph of the author by Anne Callow

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