It’s a dismal post-punk Birmingham City, England, 1986. A little over twenty-four hours after the Sigue Sigue Sputnik gig at the Powerhouse Ballroom, twenty-eight year old loner goth kid, Angel T. Cooley crisscrosses a lethal dose of heroin and speed down in a subway at three in the a.m…
In the streets above him, other broken souls who in some way came into contact with Angel continue to swim the murky, muddled waters of their own wrecked lives.
Breaking conventional literary structures, A Cigarette Burn in the Sun is a series of non-linear vignettes that depict a looking glass world where the derelict lives of an array of characters converge without any resolutions to the worthlessness of their own morbid existence, where the futures they dreamed of did not materialise.
What readers have said about u.v.ray:
“Nihilistic, hard-edged, no holds barred”
“Left field outsider philosophy, unapologetic, visceral”
“So hard-boiled you could crack a tooth on it, but also with glimpses of poetic beauty”
“u.v.ray has always written like a man hurtling towards his own death”
“Nobody writes about the gutters of working class life like u.v.ray”
“Hidden in the gritty writing there are moments of love, loneliness and tenderness.”
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