Glow (US)
Ned BeaumanSouth London, May 2010: foxes are behaving strangely, Burmese immigrants are going missing, & everyone is trying to get hold of a new party drug called Glow. A young man suffering from a rare sleep disorder will uncover the connections between all these anomalies in this taut, riveting new novel by a young writer hailed by The Guardian as “playful, arresting, unnerving, opulent, rude and—above all—deliciously, startlingly, exuberantly fresh.”
Twenty-two-year-old Raf spends his days walking Rose, a bull terrier who guards the transmitters for a pirate radio station, & his nights at raves in warehouses & launderettes. When his friend Theo vanishes without a trace, Raf’s efforts to find him will lead straight into the heart of a global corporate conspiracy. Meanwhile, he’s falling in love with a beautiful young woman he met at one of those raves, but he’ll soon discover that there is far more to Cherish than meets the eye.
Combining the pace, drama, & explosive plot twists of a thriller with his trademark intellectual, linguistic, & comedic pyrotechnics, Glow is Ned Beauman’s most compelling, virtuosic, & compulsively readable novel yet.
°°°Ned Beauman was born in 1985 & studied philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Boxer, Beetle, winner of the Writers’ Guild Award for Best Fiction Book & the Goldberg Prize for Outstanding Debut Fiction; The Teleportation Accident, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize & won the Encore Award & a Somerset Maugham Award; & the highly acclaimed Glow & Madness is Better Than Defeat. He lives in London.