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Noel Winters is lonely this Christmas. Lonely, despite being overcrowded by friends and family, which he would prefer to label as associates. This is a tale of a lazy procrastinating youth who is no longer young enough to pull that lifestyle off.Disillusioned with himself as much as the outside world, he draws inspiration from his younger adopted sister, Hannah.
Hannah is a nine-year-old self-proclaiming Jew, which means little more than a recent pork abstinence. She has a wide-eyed passion for life, a bright optimistic light in the shadow of Noel’s pessimism.
The season of joy is full of questions for Noel. Where is life leading me? Do I follow? Are cigarettes really that costly? Am I a drunk? Should I be sober before trying to answer these questions?
Excerpt from Chapter 1
A Christmas play, a secular Christmas play… wait, that doesn’t make any sense. It’s a winter play that encompasses the Christian celebration in a totally atheistic way. The play is about the joy of the festive season even for the Godless. It delights in the gluttony of the day and the slothful ambience of the evening. It merrily depicts the proud exchange of extravagantly wrapped gifts; ‘It’s a time for giving’. More importantly, it’s a time for receiving. In this ritual of gift giving we conceal our greed and our envy of those who have received more.
I choose my words well; five of the deadly sins, omitting only wrath and lust. And who’s to say they aren’t as much a part of Christmas as the tree and the fictional son. The play is performed by primary school children and in no way depicts any of these dark, more blinkered views of Christmas. That’s all me. The lights go down and the curtain rises. Hannah begins.
“Ladies and gentlemen, A British Winter.”
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By Andrew Turner
Rating: Not yet rated.
Published: Feb. 17, 2013
Words: 80,509 (approximate)
Language: British English
ISBN: 9781301004027
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