Beneath the Neon Egg

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Patrick Bluett is searching for a new life in the low light of a Copenhagen winter. Divorced and navigating the rocky relationship with his grown-up, nest-flown children, Bluett spends his days listening to John Coltranes majestic jazz symphony A Love Supreme and gazing out at the frozen streets, a desolate landscape that somehow matches his reflection in the window. His nights, however, are a little different. Walking unsteadily across the cobblestones, he moves between the neon-tinted bars and clubs of his adopted home, talking whiskey, women and the world with the other lost souls of Copenhagen, those who only seem to come out at night. But when he befriends a neighbour, a man in similar circumstances, the apartment across the hall reveals some strange secrets and Bluett realises how little he really knows of the darkness of the city.

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Brilliantly atmospheric, with a smorgasbord of edgy sexual encounters, Kennedys novel is a symphony of loneliness and longing which completely absorbs the reader and grips the heart * Daily Mail *
Downbeat, elegiac ambience As well as a mastery of atmosphere, Kennedy has a flair for interiority, taking us deep into Bluetts thoughts and the solace he finds there The novel offers a fine portrait of a man adrift * Independent on Sunday *
Wittily written * The Times *
The author, by pushing Bluett into areas where he has to consider the meaning of love and the importance of connecting with others, is asking the right questions * Herald *

Author Bio

Thomas E. Kennedys many books include novels, story and essay collections, literary criticism, translations and anthologies. He teaches in the MFA programme at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Beneath the Neon Egg is the final book in his Copenhagen Quartet, following In the Company of Angels, Falling Sideways and Kerrigan in Copenhagen. Born and raised in New York, he lives in Copenhagen with his two children. www.copenhagenquartet.com www.thomasekennedy.com