Invisible
The Essential Guide for Aliens Stranded on Earth
By Tony Matthews
Have you ever wondered why you can’t wait to get away from the party, go home and put your feet up alone? A highly unusual new book by Welsh/Australian author Tony Matthews delves deeply into the persona of the solitudinous introvert, recluse and vegan and reveals the true character of those who prefer to remain steadfastly in the background, quietly observing the world generally but rarely taking part in it. Invisible is a frank and, at times, intensely funny examination of what it’s like to be a quiet introvert and vegan in a world where most of the population likes to party loudly and excessively while also consuming seemingly endless quantities of meat.
As a boy, and right through his entire life, Tony Matthews has craved anonymity and invisibility — a state of being that is not only well beyond the laws of physics as we know them but also one largely at odds with his chosen profession of novelist and historian which often requires significant media and public exposure.
In this insightful account of his strange life, Tony Matthews takes his readers on a mystical journey through the highly unusual world of ‘Invisible Man’.
Reflecting his own young confusion, Tony questions why, as a boy, he appeared to be a round doughnut irrevocably stranded in a square biscuit-tin. His quest for understanding takes him on a roller-coaster ride until he realizes finally that he is about as comfortable on Earth as a crocodile in a handbag factory.
As a young lad, Tony, or Anthony, as he was then known, spent much of his boyhood alone, wandering the chemically-saturated, coal-dust-tainted hills, swamps and abandoned copper-smelters of 1950s Swansea, South Wales, hiding in old air-raid shelters or the crumbling World War Two gun emplacement at the base of a rocky island lighthouse on a headland called Mumbles. All this makes Tony sound as mad as a fruit-fly but in fact he was just a young, tousle-headed boy with a torch, a book, a wobbly-bladed penknife and a slightly different mission in life.
This is a book filled with a precise and edgy observation of life on planet Earth told in a style of wry self-deprecation and vividly expressed good humor. It is also an intensely moving description of a deeply committed vegan life in which Tony describes himself as, ‘… an honorary extraterrestrial with a forged hall-pass to Earth’.
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