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Elephant Vindaloo is set in South London's notorious and dilapidated Elephant and Castle, against a political backdrop of Thatcher's Britain. Its three chapters; Friday, Saturday, and Sunday; cover the many adventures of the occupants of eight flats on one stairwell of a small crumbling Victorian estate. Fat Sid, Vince and Dolores live in a squat on the third floor. Fat Sid and Vince make up the rhythm section of a local rock band, The Neanderthals, but most of their spare time is taken up looking after Dolores's baby. To add to their troubles Dolores, a teenage heroin addict, brings home Little Wing, a beautiful but disturbed runaway. Below the squat, filthy disgusting Robert masturbates the weekend away. He is a window cleaner by trade, an electronic wizard by his own design and has a sinister second career producing home videos. He is currently obsessed with Dick and Selene, his downstairs yuppie neighbors, and their routine bondage and humiliation sex marathons. Beneath Dick and Selene on the ground floor Alec Evans, a depressive pacifist artist, and Greenham Commom widower, battles with his own growing political unrest as he suffers the continual absences of his self-righteous wife, Monica. Next door, Ugandan immigrant Seema Patel, rules her husband with silent contempt, instilling terror on a daily basis. She crushes him with the subtlest of eye movements and a deportment of grace and aloofness. Above, Rudy Rutt, a ferocious gout-ridden octogenarian, and her best friend Edith, hold their Saturday afternoon ritual of wrestling, Scotch and cigarettes. The television blasts at decibels usually associated with adolescent boys, obscenities are yelled, fists are shaken; it is not a sight for small children. Upstairs, next to vile Robert lives Leo, a card-carrying union carpenter. Leo is a kindhearted, cheerful lad, as thick as two short planks, and prone to an ill-fated love life. Next to the squat lives Nick, a reformed alcoholic and drug addict, given over to health foods and exercise. Nick carries a torch for our leading lady, Kate. Sophisticated, brilliant and glamorous, a chance meeting brings her an unexpected date with our equally gorgeous and sexy Jake, a would-be actor/model, and The Neanderthals front man. Elephant Vindaloo entertains a host of other characters: Fen, the rag and bone man and his dog, Scud. Gorky, a Polish refugee and his militant mother. Georgie, the gay world's answer to Stephen Hawking (martini glass non-optional). Amorous grandfather Leonard, local villain Mean fuckin' Mike and Margaret, the reincarnation of the first Queen Elizabeth, to name but a few. Enjoy.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780989185028
  • Publisher: Nicola Frost
  • Publisher Imprint: Nicola Frost
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 254
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0989185028
  • Publisher Date: 15 Feb 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 345 gr


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