A Day Out For Mehmet Erbil Duckworth Charles Bock mixes incandescent prose

Charles Bock mixes incandescent prose with devious humour to capture Las Vegas with unprecedented scope and nuance and to provide a glimpse into a microcosm of modern America

it is beautifully told and engaging from the very first word

all her gifts of characterisation and observation are fully engaged

And what happened to a factory in Dresden which long ago made the perfect face cream

were a fantastic and bizarre phenomenon on the face of the contemporary scene

A Day Out For Mehmet Erbil Duckworth Charles Bock mixes incandescent proseFans of the wonderful Birds Without Wings will pounce on this minuscule offcut from the research trips that lay behind it which tells the story of a botanist who picks up a junk collector near Eceabat and spends the day driving around the anakkale area with him. Its a witty tale that poignantly plays with the different ways in which tourists and locals try and fail to communicate with each other on more than just the linguistic level.