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Original Title:	Dreams of Leaving
ISBN:	0747526974 (ISBN13: 9780747526971)
Edition Language:	English

Dreams of Leaving

Rupert Thomson

Paperback | Pages: 448 pages

Rating: 3.45 | 829 Users | 25 Reviews

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Title	:	Dreams of Leaving
Author	:	Rupert Thomson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 448 pages
Published	:	September 1st 1996 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (first published 1987)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels

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New Egypt is a village somewhere in the south of England. A village that nobody has ever left. Peach, the sadistic chief of police, makes sure of that. Then, one misty morning, a young couple secretly set their baby son Moses afloat on the river, in a basket made of rushes. Years later, Moses is living above a nightclub, mixing with drug-dealers, thieves and topless waitresses. He knows nothing about his past - but it is catching up with him nevertheless, and it threatens to put his life in danger. Terror, magic and farce all have a part to play as the worlds of Peach and Moses slowly converge.

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Ratings: 3.45 From 829 Users | 25 Reviews

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My entry to Thomson. A good place to begin.

'Dreams of Leaving' Hit me in a strange way. At the time I read it, the expression reflected my desire to leave home, move, travel go anywhere.Although the nature of drawing out those dreams is the same is being hit in head with a brick.Rupert Thompson writing is magical in the sense that the words he uses create this euphoric sense of fantasy. At the same time he hit perfectly on the pessimistic reality that grounded and tied the book together.

This is one of the worst books Ive ever read, which is sad, because the writing isnt terrible. Its the story thats terrible. The story rambles and detours and runs away with itself and tortures you as you believe the ending will resolve the story but it never does. This book wouldve been so much better as a short story. It is predictable and every piece of it that is new or interesting is never properly addressed. Skip it!

Absolutely loved this! It's sad and beautiful and funny. The characters are wonderful and you feel like you actually know them and properly care about them. It's a book about family and what that means and about growing up and changing. Highly recommended

It started out with one story and then flipped to something totally unrelated and not interesting at all. Sorry but the main character was just a stoned, drunk scrounger with no sense of women and I just kept skipping through to get back to the bits about the original story. When I hoped the story might get interesting it didn't and I don't even feel it arrived anywhere at the end so all in all a disappointing read.

Observations are at times slow and sporadic and at other times frank and engaging. There was interesting enough storytelling here to entice me to make it to the end.

Quite an interesting plot. The way he has written and explained the plot it's very interesting. There are moments when you're just into the book and there are some dull moments as well. I would say the ending didn't blow me away and it leaves a lot of questions unanswered. Nothing which can make you question the writer but something which will leave you imagining a lot of things. The read is interesting, I must say!