Counterparts

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Gargan, a tightrope walker, repeats a ceremonial act of self-mutilation as he travels across Europe in pursuit of an elusive Yugoslavian waitress. Meanwhile in Paris, Adam, an impoverished actor, is gradually bullied out of his identity. Like the wire that divides Gargan's vision, both men's lives drift between fantasy and reality, a process at once drawing them together and tearing them apart.

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Nicholas Royle

Nicholas Royle is the author of two previous collections, Mortality and Ornithology, as well as In Camera (with David Gledhill). His seven novels include The Director’s Cut, Antwerp, and First Novel. Reader in Creative Writing at the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University, he is head judge of…

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