The War Zone is available FREE ON KINDLE TO AMAZON PRIME MEMBERS.
A dark, ironic, emotionally-charged novel about incest, adolescent fury and parental morality, the novel won Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize for Best Novel (now the Costa Book Awards) when it was first published, only to have the prize snatched away amid public controversy when one of the judges politicked behind the scenes.
Dubbed a contemporary Catcher in the Rye by Time Out magazine, The War Zone was turned into a powerful multi-award-winning film by Oscar-nominated actor-director Tim Roth, which premiered at Sundance and went on to attract great acclaim at film festivals around the world. The film can be streamed from Netflix and is available on DVD through Amazon.
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| Lara Belmont in Tim Roth's film of The War Zone |
The new 20th Anniversary Edition is fully revised and updated and includes both the original British and American opening chapters, as well as an Afterword by Tim Roth, my diary of the making of the film and an introduction that includes the striking prepublication letter that Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange, sent me, along with his cover quote:
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| The Catalan edition of The War Zone |
"This is a pungent shocking book, superbly written (sharp, sensuous, bitter) which presents the theme of incest...as a symbol of social breakdown. I was horrified but seduced from first to last. The writing is remarkable."
For a fresh perspective on the novel please read Merrel Davis' excellent review at his blog, Uncompleted Works, and Lisa Millegan Renner's excellent article about the book, my life and work in The Modesto Bee.
