About This Book
A crude, rude and rapidly paced novel that charts the life and times of “John†from May to August 1989 after his return from working in Israel, to London and then through to his departure again for Thailand four months later. Taken from a type-written manuscript produced over the summer of that year, “Disorientation†is aa look at what it meant to be young and footloose in London at the end of the 80’s in Thatcher’s Britain: a world without mobile ‘phones, before every home had a PC, when it was still possible to be anonymous and when the big disease with the little name was spoken of with fear on hushed lips, if spoken about at all. “Disorientation†records one young man’s splintered existence, fractured past and uncertain future. While events beyond his control redraw the world’s political, geographical and economical maps, his everyday life remains unchanged and forever daunting, day-to-day survival the only objective. It was a life skating on the edges of survival, flirting with dangers, strangers, drugs, drink, casual work and casual sex. A unique record of a time and place, “Disorientation†tells it how it once was and can never be again.
