The Walk

Peter Barry

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New Internationalist Publications Ltd
01 July 2017

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

A provocative and unsettling novel about the morality of charity, the media and public relations.

It is 1987, two years after Live Aid and PR expert Adrian Burles, working with charity Africa Assist has a Big Idea that he thinks will keep Ethiopian hunger in the headlines and touch heartstrings (and purse strings) of people in the West. Aided by Anne Chaffey, an experienced nurse who has worked at the famine frontline for many years, he locates a young, malnourished Afar man called Mujtabaa wandering alone in the desert and flies him back to London.

The world's media are then invited to witness a skeletal Mujtabaa making a week-long walk from Heathrow to a rally in Trafalgar Square. In fundraising terms, this is a great success but the ethics of the exercise, the human impact on all concerned, and the ultimate result, are all profoundly to be questioned.

The Walk is a provocative and unsettling novel about the morality of charity, the media and public relations. Situated in one single week it explores how far you can go to prick the public conscience.

By: Peter Barry
Imprint: New Internationalist Publications Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 191mm, Width: 127mm,
ISBN: 9781780263946
ISBN 10: 1780263945
Publication Date: 01 July 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Peter Barry was born in England, brought up in Scotland and now lives in Australia. He is the author of two other novels, I Hate Martin Amis Et Al and We All Fall Down and has had many short stories published in literary journals. He was shortlisted for Australia Book Review's Calibre essay prize. He has been a copywriter in both the UK and Australia and has written three corporate books.

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'Barry writes with such awe-inspiring authority... Intelligent, provocative entertainment at its best.' Erotic Review; 'Peter Barry is a talented writer with a gift for comedy.' Transnational Literature

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