# The Alternative Hero

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- Book: [The Alternative Hero](https://www.bookquiver.com/tim-thornton/the-alternative-hero) ([The Alternative Hero.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/tim-thornton/the-alternative-hero.md))
- Authors: [Tim Thornton](https://www.bookquiver.com/tim-thornton)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-0745-613-7
- Pages: 416
- Published: 2010-07-13
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In this comic, wildly energetic first novel, Clive Beresford is a failed music fanzine writer in his early thirties who fears that his best days are behind him. The turning point came when Lance...