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The winner of the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize
A sizzling and deeply touching love story between two men, set in the gay biker community of 1970s London

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"Mars-Jones’ trim, poignant novel humanizes the intricacies of a dominant-submissive gay relationship.... As the narrator says, “What I saw of his life was about excitement, about magic,” a spell that will fall on readers, too." -- Kirkus (starred)
"Mars-Jones’s prose is exceptionally nimble, dry, humorously restrained, very English, with a little Nabokovian velvet too. He can describe more or less anything and make it interesting." -- James Wood - London Review of Books
"Mars-Jones is a writer of wonderful originality and wit." -- The Times (London)
"Dry, accurate, tragic." -- Edmund White
"I very much enjoyed Box Hill. It is a characteristic Mars-Jones mixture of the shocking, the endearing, the funny, and the sad, with an unforgettable narrator. The sociological detail is as ever acutely enduring." -- Margaret Drabble

Box Hill A Story of Low SelfEsteem

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    A Paperback by Adam Mars–jones

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      Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
      Publication Date: 1/10/2025 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780811230056, 978-0811230056
      ISBN10: 0811230058
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The winner of the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize
      A sizzling and deeply touching love story between two men, set in the gay biker community of 1970s London

      Trade Review
      "Mars-Jones’ trim, poignant novel humanizes the intricacies of a dominant-submissive gay relationship.... As the narrator says, “What I saw of his life was about excitement, about magic,” a spell that will fall on readers, too." -- Kirkus (starred)
      "Mars-Jones’s prose is exceptionally nimble, dry, humorously restrained, very English, with a little Nabokovian velvet too. He can describe more or less anything and make it interesting." -- James Wood - London Review of Books
      "Mars-Jones is a writer of wonderful originality and wit." -- The Times (London)
      "Dry, accurate, tragic." -- Edmund White
      "I very much enjoyed Box Hill. It is a characteristic Mars-Jones mixture of the shocking, the endearing, the funny, and the sad, with an unforgettable narrator. The sociological detail is as ever acutely enduring." -- Margaret Drabble

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