The Singing Detective by Dennis Potter
A novelist bedridden with a painful skin condition and arthritis drifts between hospital reality, vivid childhood memories of a grim wartime Midlands upbringing, and an imagined pulp-noir detective narrative punctuated by musical interludes; as these strands collide, repressed trauma, family betrayals, and the porous boundary between fiction and memory are exposed, producing a darkly comic, self-reflexive exploration of storytelling, identity, and the consolations and distortions of popular culture.
- Published
- 1986
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- Unknown
- Original Language
- English
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