Fiction. London is a city of ruins and rubble: in fighting against a
police state Britain has become almost a police state itself. Rationing
is still in place, the black market is thriving, medical shortages have
resulted in antibiotics being watered down. Though Britain was possessed
of great decency there was a limit to what it might be expected to bear
after suffering six years of war. The barbarities of war had changed
peoples' attitudes; nobody thought of foreigners in terms of human
beings. The Salvation Army were singing of salvation while the kids on
the street were singing saucy songs about inn keepers' daughters and
German officers that had crossed the line.
New arrival
seventeen-year old Bridget Kelly dreams of a world where everyone is
equal. "There is no cause more dangerous" warns one council official as
she sets about the task of trying to make her dream come true. She is
courageous and determined and in terrible danger. Her young nephew
Michael schemes and plots to win the metal mountain, a gothic edifice, a
treacherous Hades, a fabulous kingdom of iron. Meanwhile, his young
aunt has come under the scrutiny of the British secret police.
Blackmail, betrayal and murder follow. A perverse grand tragedy with an
edge of iron.
"The skies darken. An urgent, brutal and
ultimately tragic resolution is waiting in the railside scrapyard of THE
METAL MOUNTAIN.This glittering alp of damage, an unsorted mound heaped
from the discarded toys of capitalism, is as potent a symbol for our
contemporary confusions as the dust heaps of Dickens. Nature is avenged
and Healy has given us a brave sequel, as genuine fiction now, to The
Grass Arena."--Iain Sinclair
The Metal Mountain - John Healy
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