Goodbye, Mr Dixon [electronic resource]
Iain Crichton Smith2015
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The titular Mr Dixon is not the novel's main character but the creation of the
novel's main character, Tom Spence. Spence describes himself as "an embryo
novelist"; he has had the odd job - for example, delivering mail - but is
largely without skills and has bet all on his career as a writer. Unfortunately
he has "never brought a novel to a successful conclusion" never mind had one
published, and, unable to live the dream, has instead dreamed it through his
protagonist, Drew Dixon. His novel has ground to a halt because he has decided
Dixon will "meet a girl of twenty-five or thereabouts whose entry into his world
was to change his life" but has no idea how to write it. Fortuitously he meets a
young woman, Ann, and, as their relationship develops we begin to sense that it
will be Spence's life that is changed rather than Dixon's. As Spence's isolation
ends he revisits his past, attempting to contact the mother he hasn't seen in
years and returning to his old school to see t...
Main title:
Goodbye, Mr Dixon [electronic resource] / Iain Crichton Smith
Author:
Iain Crichton Smith, Author
Imprint:
London United Kingdom : Polygon, 2015
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (pages, 207, Bytes, 805372.0)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780857907349
Language:
English
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BRN:
534537
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