John King is the author of seven novels, including England Away, Headhunters, The Prison House, Skinheads, and White Trash. He currently publishes and edits Verbal, a fiction-based publication.
"In its ambition and exuberance, Human Punk is a league ahead of
much contemporary English fiction."
--New Statesman "The long sentences and paragraphs build up
cumulatively, with the sequences describing an end-of-term punch-up
and the final canal visit just two virtuoso examples. These
passages come close to matching the coiled energy of Hubert Selby's
prose, one of King's keynote influences... In the resolution of the
novel's central, devastating act, there is an almost Shakespearean
sense of a brief restoration of balance after the necessary
bloodletting."
--Gareth Evans, The Independent "King's eye for detail is as sharp
as his characters' tongues, and his creations are eminently
three-dimensional: insightful and funny one minute, bigoted and
fucked up the next. Like real people, then."
--The Face "Unique and brutal fiction. King is a master of idiom
and street slang. He appears with a voice that appears to be the
true expression of disaffected white British youth."
--The Times "A novel dedicated to good literature lovers. Rough,
violent, scary, visionary, true, political, raw, aggressive,
totally moving, this novel has got the anger of the Sex Pistols,
the energy of the Clash and the pumping lines of the best dub
courtesy of King Tubby."
--Pop Culture Detox
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