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...prestigious decennial list of the 20 Best of Young British Novelists, standing on the shoulders of giants like Martin Amis, Ian McEwan and Salman Rushdie, and rubbing his own with publishing hotshots Zadie Smith and Toby Litt. Rhodes' presence there is all the more remarkable since his first novel, Timoleon Vieta Come Home (Canongate; 214 pages), is only now arriving in bookstores and is likely, he says, to be his last. The grind of writing Timoleon Vieta, Rhodes says, has cost him too much, and though he's flattered by his newfound status, his bigger consolation is that the ordeal...
Other manuscripts include: "Timoleon," John Marr and Other Sailors," "Billy Budd," "Jack Gentian," "The River," "Rammon the Enviable Isles," and "The Admiral of the White...
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