He idolises his father never more so than when he saves the life of a suicidal man and he comes to believe that heroism is all. Publisher: RedDoor Press ISBN: 9781910453742 Number of pages: 320 Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm You may also be interested in. In an unspecified time and location, an unnamed boy is living what he feels to be an idyllic life in the faded and peeling Lido where his father is a lifeguard. He meets ghosts, hears voices and battles his fears but never questions his own version of reality.Īnger spills over when he hears the girl he loves referred to as a twenty-dollar-whore and his actions lead him to run from The Fell. The boy is an unreliable narrator, seeing the world and his place in it through a unique lens. 13, 2017 3:30 AM PT Reporting from BEIJING. Army in 1965 and crossed into North Korea, where he was held for decades. Francis (Pa.), South Carolina and Georgia Tech but had multiple offers from NFL teams, all of whom planned. Charles Robert Jenkins, 77, deserted the U.S. He is young and afraid but the boys in the home become his family and they band together against their enemies, both real and imagined, they become family. The 6-foot-6, 245-pound Jenkins went undrafted after spending time as a receiver at St. The arrest of his sister Lilly later that summer brings the halcyon days to an abrupt end, and his family is torn apart, with Lilly sent to jail and the boy set to a boarding house for dysfunctional boys, far away from his home - The Fell. He wrote poetry from a young age and read them in the early days of stand-up poetry nights in London pubs. Running wild was his heritage but he also wrote plays for the stage, novels and short stories. He idolises his father - never more so than when he saves the life of a suicidal man - and he comes to believe that heroism is all. In an unspecified time and location, an unnamed boy is living what he feels to be an idyllic life in the faded and peeling Lido where. Robert Jenkins was born and raised in Walthamstow, East London. In an unspecified time and location, an unnamed boy is living what he feels to be an idyllic life in the faded and peeling Lido where his father is a lifeguard.

The Fell by Robert Jenkins