Luke Davies writes on Howard Hughes
January 23 , 2008
After a great break over the festive season, our Book Club is back on the go!
There are plenty exciting plans for the year ahead, plenty great books on the way and plenty fantastic authors we’ll be introducing you to over the next few months.
To kick off 2008, please welcome our guest reviewer - Annie Grossman of Written Dimension Book Shop, Noosa Junction - who has been fortunate enough to get her hands on a copy of The God of Speed by Australian author, Luke Davies.
The God of Speed
Luke Davies penned the award-winning modern day classic "Candy", which sold over 35,000 copies and was made into a brilliant and confronting film.
He also wrote the extremely underrated "Isabelle The Navigator" and the verse novel, "Totem".
I was very excited to receive an advance copy of Luke's new book "God of Speed" which is due for release in April this year."God of Speed" is again confronting, but beautifully written.
It is the story of Howard Hughes, and the final day or so of his life where he is laying in a bed, hopelessly addicted to drugs and protected from all visitors, but more importantly, the germs they carry.
As his power ebbs, he contemplates his life, a rollercoaster of drugs, oil, money, power, fame, women, aircraft, Hollywood and a lot more!
Luke has gathered information from Hughes' life, and I must say I wasn't aware that he had slept with so many of the most famous screen stars in cinematic history!
Luke doesn't spare the details of these encounters, so if you are easily unsettled by sexual detail, you may wish to avoid this one!
I personally found the details very much in context with the novel, not thrown in to titillate.Luke Davies is one of Australia's secret treasures.
His writing, despite his tough subject matter, is lyrical and compelling.
I think Howard Hughes himself would have been pretty happy with this one!
Source: The Daily - Sunshine Coast Daily - Between The Covers Blog
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