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Author Chad Taylor back in New Zealand.After a year away, mainly in the UK, NZ author Chad Taylor (pic right) is back home with news of overseas sales of his latest book, The Church of John Coltrane. I haven't read this title so I asked Taylor what is was about. Here is his repsonse:
THE CHURCH OF JOHN COLTRANE is a noir novel about jazz: the Zen sequel to HEAVEN.
I wrote something on the novel on my website at: http://www.chadtaylor.co.nz/tcojc.html
"Jazz is restless, frustrated. Always attacking itself, taking itself apart. It has no basis in the everyday any more. It doesn't reach out to you. It doesn't tell you anything. It just goes round and round in its own little world noodling with its own personal references. And that's what's dangerous about it. It presents the listener with a false reality. It fragments perception. Jazz fucks you up."
Auckland, New Zealand. Nearly 15 years after the events of HEAVEN, Robert Marling has finally blown it all. He has been bankrupted at the casino, abandoned by his wife and son, and his career as an architect is over. After the death of his eccentric father, Lewis, Robert ducks his creditors and retreats into the old man's apartment in the condemned General Building.
Alone with nothing but Lewis's jazz collection for company, for a moment it seems that Robert has finally achieved nothingness. But the strange silence of the maze-like building is soon interrupted. Far from escaping, Robert Marling is about to enter in a cool, forgotten world.
I wrote something on the novel on my website at: http://www.chadtaylor.co.nz/tcojc.html
"Jazz is restless, frustrated. Always attacking itself, taking itself apart. It has no basis in the everyday any more. It doesn't reach out to you. It doesn't tell you anything. It just goes round and round in its own little world noodling with its own personal references. And that's what's dangerous about it. It presents the listener with a false reality. It fragments perception. Jazz fucks you up."
Auckland, New Zealand. Nearly 15 years after the events of HEAVEN, Robert Marling has finally blown it all. He has been bankrupted at the casino, abandoned by his wife and son, and his career as an architect is over. After the death of his eccentric father, Lewis, Robert ducks his creditors and retreats into the old man's apartment in the condemned General Building.
Alone with nothing but Lewis's jazz collection for company, for a moment it seems that Robert has finally achieved nothingness. But the strange silence of the maze-like building is soon interrupted. Far from escaping, Robert Marling is about to enter in a cool, forgotten world.
And here are links to the overseas sales, if you have French and/or German !:
Editions Christian Bourgois:
http://www.christianbourgois-editeur.com/fiche-livre.php?Id=1125
http://www.christianbourgois-editeur.com/fiche-livre.php?Id=1125
German edition
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