Monster Doss House

Iain Sinclair

  • The Grass Arena by John Healy
    Faber, 194 pp, £9.95, October 1988, ISBN 0 571 15170 1

‘Suddenly a hand wrenched my neck back. Others grabbed my arms, my legs ... One of them squeezed my balls so hard. I got a pain in my guts making me dizzy.’ Brooding malign silences wind the tension to breaking point, and are punctuated by sudden eruptions of violence: it is a survivalist world, bleak and uncompromising – the world of competitive chess.

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