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Monday, August 22, 2005

Books: Tideland by Mitch Cullin

The profile of Tideland is likely to swell in the upcoming months with Terry Gilliam's film adaptation being released in the Autumn. In fact the front of the book already boasts the supermarket unfriendly description of "f**king marvelous" from the ex-Python. The story follows a young girl into the fantasy world she creates when taken to a remote house by her comatose rock star father. This gives Cullin scope to let his imagination run wild as the little girl and her Barbie doll heads seek out adventure in the long grass.

Gilliam has clearly relished the flights of fancy the book revels in. Whilst there is a wonderful sense of place conjured up by the book it looses it's way in the blur of reality and fantasy requiring a high degree of concentration from the reader.

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