It's the summer of 1981. You're stuck in a semi-derelict art-deco hotel on a tiny island off the South coast of Devon. You're sixteen years old and six foot three inches tall. You have a clitoris the size of a Jersey Royal. There's nothing to do but paint Margaret Thatcher mugs to supplement the meagre family income and dream of literary murderer Jack Henry Abbott. Until a ginger stranger arrives, stinking of antiseptic.An instant classic of teenage self-discovery, Five Miles From Outer Hope is an unforgettable postcard from a 1980s Brett Easton Ellis never knew existed.
- ISBN13 9780571205950
- Publish Date 19 March 2001 (first published 7 February 2000)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 10 March 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208
- Language English
- URL https://allenandunwin.com/browse/books/9780571205950