Review

Author and journalist Chris Power delves into the ethics of stealing reality to make fiction, in his debut novel A Lonely Man

By Colin Steele
August 15 2021 - 12:00am
Guardian columnist and novelist Chris Power. Picture: Getty Words
Guardian columnist and novelist Chris Power. Picture: Getty Words
  • A Lonely Man, by Chris Power. Faber, $29.99.

Chris Power, who has been a columnist for The Guardian since 2007, had his short story collection Mothers longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize in 2018. His debut novel, A Lonely Man, is largely set in Berlin, where middle-aged English writer Robert Prowe is long overdue finishing a novel.

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