The will-sapping tedium of life as a Walsall Reflector hack has given Dave "Ichabod" McVane a serious thirst for the devil's juice. Now, after years of debauchery, the booze has bitten back: what feels like a rhinoceros is buffeting its way through his stomach. He wakes cathetered and bed-bound among deranged "regulars" in a hospital with a terrifyingly high mortality rate. And if that wasn't bad enough, a figure from a past he'd rather forget revisits . . . to leave Dave reeling, raddled with paranoia and facing a scalpel-happy surgeon. Perhaps it's time to reflect on how he got in such a state. Was it the Walsall Academy of New Knowledge or the sideline in "specialist" leatherwork? Or was it having a Smiths fan called Ringo for a best friend, and hookers for next-door-neighbours? Is closing time being called once and for all, or will the pall of his disillusionment suddenly lift?
- ISBN10 0954130375
- ISBN13 9780954130374
- Publish Date 1 February 2004
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 February 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Profile Books Ltd
- Imprint Tindal Street Press
- Edition Main
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 288
- Language English