'Genuinely subversive, Butlin’s book is a stylistic triumph. A major novel' - Irvine Welsh
Morris Magellan is thirty-four years old and already two-thirds destroyed. By day he is an executive, after six and at weekends the husband of an understanding wife and the father of two. At all times he is a music lover and a drunk.
Of the past he remembers only fear, and of the future he senses even greater terror to come; he is a man struggling from moment to moment to salvage something of himself before that too slips from his grasp.
On one level The Sound of My Voice tells the story of an alcoholic: a frantic attempt by some inner voice to halt an apparent need for self-destruction. More generally it presents the conflict between modern man’s cowardice and cruelty, and a desperate attempt to recover humanity.
- ISBN13 9781846974229
- Publish Date 5 April 2018 (first published 22 January 1987)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 August 2023
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Birlinn General
- Imprint Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
- Edition New Edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 160
- Language English