A Shock 15th Century At the very southern tip

At the very southern tip of South America looms an isolated finishing school

years later

como si fuera una jungla sórdida

Un departamento en la colonia Roma

A Shock 15th Century At the very southern tipFinally, Ridgway gives us A Shock, his thrilling and unsparing, slippery and shockingly good new novel. Formed as a rondel of interlocking stories with a clutch of more or less loosely connected repeating characters, it's at once deracinated yet potent with place, druggy yet frighteningly shot through with reality. His people appear, disappear, and reappear. They're on the fringes of London, clinging to sanity or solvency or a story by their