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A Method Actor's Guide to Jekyll and Hyde
by Kevin MacNeil
ISBN: 9781846971693
Imprint: Polygon
Publication Date: Sep 2010
Format: Hardback (eBook also available)
Price: £12.99
Stock Status: in stock
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'MacNeil's novel, though drawing on Stevenson's novella, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, is never slavishly derivative. His Method Actor's Guide is, in its finest glinting moments, that "whole new thing" of which Hemingway wrote, and from first to last an enticing read,' - Tom Adair, The Scotsman
“A phenomenally good novel … brilliant, touching, funny and clever,” – Roger Hutchinson, West Highland Free Press
After a bike crash in a foggy Edinburgh, troubled young actor Robert Lewis wakes to find that life has changed for the darker. And the weirder. He’s still a deceitful egoist but now life seems to be deceiving and manipulating him. Everything that can go wrong is going wrong. He’s losing control of his love life, his starring role in a new adaptation of Jekyll and Hyde, and, quite possibly, his mind. A Method Actor's Guide to Jekyll and Hyde is a dark, maniacal thriller that explores many kinds of duality - individual, social and cultural, and is a heartfelt tale about the search for belonging and the nature of love and desire. It is also bloody funny.
Read an interview with Kevin here. And here is Kevin himself, reading a short extract from the novel:
Kevin MacNeil was born and raised on the Isle of Lewis. A poet, novelist, aphorist, lyricist, screenwriter and playwright, his books include Love and Zen in the Outer Hebrides (Canongate), Be Wise Be Otherwise (Canongate), The Callanish Stoned (Theatre Hebrides) and The Stornoway Way (Penguin). His first book won the Tivoli Europa Giovani International Poetry Prize for best poetry collection published in Europe by a writer under 35. The Stornoway Way was a bestseller and is currently being optioned for a film. MacNeil was the inaugural Iain Crichton Smith Bilingual Writing Fellow and has held further prestigious writing residencies in Sweden (Uppsala University), Bavaria Villa Concordia) and a number of other places, including lecturing on the Creative Writing MSC at Edinburgh University. He often collaborates with visual artists and musicians. The William Campbell and Kevin MacNeil single ‘Local Man Ruins Everything’ (Fantastic Plastic) was Single of the Week in The Guardian, in The List and on Steve Lamacq’s radio show. MacNeil cycled 1300km of the Danube, from source to Budapest, on a single-speed fixed-gear track bike, for two cancer charities; the BBC filmed a documentary about him and his bike ride which took just a dozen cycling days.
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