'GIANTS'
John Evans' new book 'GIANTS' was launched live online on friday, 28th January 2000. Visitors
to the site on the day were able to download a full interactive
copy of the book for free, and chat to John about his work. Thanks
to all who came to the launch – and hope you enjoyed the book!
'Giants' is now avaliable in all leading bookshops, or it can
be ordered online.
Giants is published by: Underground Press
ISBN:1 897607 06 7 Price: £3.95 UK.
Quotes from back cover of 'Giants':
"One of the most committed writers in Wales today." Herbert Williams, New Welsh Review
"Like Pere Ubu did for Cleveland in the Seventies, Joy Division
for Manchester, and Nirvana for Seattle in the early Nineties,
Evans has that rare gift of capturing a time, place and culture
in his writings about his native South Wales Valleys." Brian James, Kulture Vulture
John Evans takes his audience to the kind of place where other
artists fear to tread – a desolate topography of rotting estates,
derelict tenements, grim malls and abandoned collieries. His books
explore the postindustrial badlands of the South Wales Valleys.
The cinematic sweep of the books, their mixture of narrative styles
and sharp focus on drug use has been likened to the work of Irvine
Welsh. But Evans is tackling a much wider range of themes. His
exuberant use of imagery has led to comparisons with William Burroughs,
Kathy Acker, Hunter S Thompson, Henry Rollins and Cardiff-born
Iain Sinclair, who has called him ‘a hot and necessary particle
in an evidently grim landscape’. And there are significant similarities
with Sinclair: a relish for exploring forgotten zones, high-energy
prophetic prose and detailed observation of mass psychic breakdown."
Andrew Hedgecock, Time Out
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