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The first novel by the cult playwright and performer, published to coincide with a nationwide Arts Council tour of dramatised readings
A striking story of love, anger, consequences and a community's iconic first-born son, Chaos.
Brought up by a bunch of revolutionary drop-outs in a Seventies commune, Chaos grew up surrounded by free living, free loving and every kind of good intention. Now he's a modern icon - a cross between Swampy, John Lennon, Bob Geldof and Princess Diana. Only things haven't quite worked out as they were meant to, and the chaos that infected personal relationships has begun to have serious consequences for society at large ...
Spanning the last thirty years as it charts an alternative history for the counterculture, Claire Dowie's extraordinary novel embraces sex, drugs and rock and roll, anarchists, communards, organic farming, alternative lifestyles, alternative energy, green issues and self-sufficiency from the sixties through to the millennium.
"Claire Dowie is the supreme advocate of rebellion" The Stage
"She makes you laugh as she kicks you in the teeth" Guardian
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About Claire Dowie Claire Dowie has written ten stage plays (published by Methuen in three volumes) four radio plays and two short films. She is best known for Adult Child/Dead Child on the stage, The Year of the Monkey on radio and Came Out, It Rained, Went Back in Again on TV. She is currently working on a series of five plays for BBC radio and a new stage play. This is her first novel.
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