The Shadow King : SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020 Harvard University Press Niall Griffiths - a writer

Niall Griffiths - a writer who was working in a British post office when he first read Bukowski's Post Office

Topics covered include medieval colour-symbolism

A native Brooklynite-turned-suburban commuter deemed the quintessential New Yorker

and causes them to embark on a journey through their past to ask themselves the big where did it all go wrong

Annotated further readingsections at the end of each chapter act as a guide to further enquiry

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