The Cubist's House
£8.95
If Marcel Duchamp,
Friedrich Nietzsche and Le Corbusier
collaborated on a project The Cubists House
would be the result. A cross between The
Prisoner and Tales of the Unexpected things are not always
quite how they appear.
When English Literature lecturer and minor author Jethro
Carmichael returns home to find his apartment ransacked and his partner gone missing he decides it is all getting too much for him
and it is time for a change of scenery. Renney van der Stratten is an American pretending to be
Dutch.
His bigoted Bostonian mother, and his whisky-swilling
father are not helping his state of mind. Nor is the fact that his
antique dealership appears to be going down the pan. Jethro takes a year's sabbatical and retreats to an
unremarkable Adriatic island. And on discovering revolutionary 60s
graffi and extraordinary oil paintings in his basement, and having
the feeling someone is out to kill him, Renney also decides to retreat to an unremarkable Adriatic island.
But it is only when their paths cross that things begin to
get really strange.
Learning about the house designed by a Cubist architect;
meeting the German woman in a cove; and overhearing the safari suit-wearing eccentric recounting stories about the Soviet
Union; all result in Jethro beginning to write again. To write what
could turn out to be his opus.