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Bindlestiff
by Wayne Holloway
(Influx Press, £9.99)
THERE are occasions when a novel deserves the sobriquet mould-breaking and one such is the publication of this tale of an African-American hobo by Wayne Holloway, which switches back and forth between a present-day film script and a dystopian future reality.
Bindlestiff – another term for a travelling itinerant – starts in the harsh factory of Hollywood as a script writer and director try to secure the money and the team to make a film about a “black Charlie Chaplin.”
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