★★★ The hard-hitting sequel to the multi-award nominated novel BOWLING BALL ★★★
Starting with frenzied masturbation, a back door entrance to a Glasgow nightclub and a racially-aggravated altercation in a east London strip joint, Escobar Walker's second novel SIDEWAYS MOVERS resumes in the immediate aftermath of the author's multi-award nominated debut BOWLING BALL.
WITH HIS FLATMATE dead and his nemesis Chaz Nisbet languishing in prison on a murder charge, life is gradually starting to look back up for anti-hero Dempsy when a free summer holiday in Spain is quickly followed by a potentially lucrative compensation pay-out falling into (or rather out of) his lap whilst eating in a well-known fast food chain.
Unfortunately the arrival of precocious bawbag Barry Veitch at his workplace just as quickly drags the serial-masturbator back down into the harsh realities of modern life, with his shell-suited teenage colleague acting as a stark reminder not only of Dempsy’s bleak future prospects selling double-glazed windows on one of Glasgow’s poorest council estates, but also of the even more depressing monkey that remains on his back: still being a virgin in his twenties.
Set against the backdrop of a pubic lice infestation and the mundane lives of the stories five main characters, SIDEWAYS MOVERS portrays a grim pastiche of under-achievement in everyday life in central Scotland (no money, no girlfriend and very little hope of getting either). The story edges closer towards an inevitable car-crash conclusion as our main protagonist takes matters into his own hands to resolve his sexual and financial frustrations, first with an unsuccessful late-night visit to a red light district and then with a more profitable foray into an upmarket housing estate in Milngavie to boost his ailing sales figures. Or at least it is looking that way until an invitation to a Halloween party results in something altogether more sordid and sinister . . .
At over 80,000 words, SIDEWAYS MOVERS is a full-length novel. TALES OF THE GREAT PIMP MCDADDY, the third and final instalment in Escobar Walker's 'Three Realistic Holes' trilogy, will be published in 2015.
Starting with frenzied masturbation, a back door entrance to a Glasgow nightclub and a racially-aggravated altercation in a east London strip joint, Escobar Walker's second novel SIDEWAYS MOVERS resumes in the immediate aftermath of the author's multi-award nominated debut BOWLING BALL.
WITH HIS FLATMATE dead and his nemesis Chaz Nisbet languishing in prison on a murder charge, life is gradually starting to look back up for anti-hero Dempsy when a free summer holiday in Spain is quickly followed by a potentially lucrative compensation pay-out falling into (or rather out of) his lap whilst eating in a well-known fast food chain.
Unfortunately the arrival of precocious bawbag Barry Veitch at his workplace just as quickly drags the serial-masturbator back down into the harsh realities of modern life, with his shell-suited teenage colleague acting as a stark reminder not only of Dempsy’s bleak future prospects selling double-glazed windows on one of Glasgow’s poorest council estates, but also of the even more depressing monkey that remains on his back: still being a virgin in his twenties.
Set against the backdrop of a pubic lice infestation and the mundane lives of the stories five main characters, SIDEWAYS MOVERS portrays a grim pastiche of under-achievement in everyday life in central Scotland (no money, no girlfriend and very little hope of getting either). The story edges closer towards an inevitable car-crash conclusion as our main protagonist takes matters into his own hands to resolve his sexual and financial frustrations, first with an unsuccessful late-night visit to a red light district and then with a more profitable foray into an upmarket housing estate in Milngavie to boost his ailing sales figures. Or at least it is looking that way until an invitation to a Halloween party results in something altogether more sordid and sinister . . .
At over 80,000 words, SIDEWAYS MOVERS is a full-length novel. TALES OF THE GREAT PIMP MCDADDY, the third and final instalment in Escobar Walker's 'Three Realistic Holes' trilogy, will be published in 2015.
