Vulgar Things. Lee Rourke

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       COPYRIGHT

      Fourth Estate

      An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

      1 London Bridge Street

      London SE1 9GF

       www.4thestate.co.uk

      First published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate in 2014

      Copyright © Lee Rourke 2014

      Lee Rourke asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.

      Source ISBN: 9780007542512

      Ebook Edition © July 2014 ISBN: 9780007542529

      Version: 2015-06-03

       From the reviews of Vulgar Things:

      ‘Sad, lost men looking for maps in the starry Essex sky, small-town strippers, absent mothers, angry brothers, planets photographed on smart phones, cider and a lot of rare steak – Rourke is on his way to becoming the J. G. Ballard of Southend-on-Sea’

      Deborah Levy

      ‘A consistently disturbing yet compelling vision of loss, violence and identity, Vulgar Things stalks the reader’s memory long after the last page. A novel of innovation and resonance, it is as bleak and as beautiful as a deserted coastline’

      Stuart Evers

       DEDICATION

       For Wilko Johnson

      My mind shudders recounting.

      Virgil: The Aeneid

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

       Epigraph

       Sunday

       Monday

       Tuesday

       Wednesday

       Thursday

       Back in the Night I Lay Down by Your Fireside

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       About the Publisher

       MAYBE SOMEONE IS WONDERING JUST WHAT I’M DOING HERE

       an office

      Look at them both sitting at their desks, feigning important business. What do they think they’re doing with their lives? What are they hoping to achieve, acting the way they do, alienating everyone else in the office? I’ve asked myself many, many times: What am I doing here? I’m pretty much resigned to the fact that I’ve more or less chosen the wrong path in life. Not that I have any idea what the correct path might be. I look at what my life, until now, has amounted to: a boring job, a failed marriage, a small flat I can barely afford, and each working day the same agonising prospect of these two loathsome cretins, sitting at their desks, constantly talking to one another. It sickens me. To be honest, I don’t think I have the strength for it any more.

       lunch hour

      Jessica, the younger of the two and my line manager, had taken me to one side in the company kitchen earlier that week. Her words had been rattling around my head ever since, delivered, as they were, in her usual pseudo-flirtatious manner: ‘What’s wrong with you these days? Have you been having trouble at home again?’

      ‘I

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