Shuttlecock (Vintage International) - Softcover
A clerk in charge of the "dead crimes" files discovers a menacing glitch in the system when an old crime resurfaces and haunts him with myths about his father and a war hero named "Shuttlecock." Reissue. 15,000 first printing. Movie tie-in.
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"An astonishing study of forms of guilt, laced with a thread of detection--and outrageous humor." -The Sunday Times (London) "A world that is half Kafka, half Orwell--joined on a cord of elegant, tough, swift writing." -San Francisco Examiner
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Intense psychological thriller from 1996 Booker Prize winner
Intense psychological thriller by Graham Swift, winner of the 1996 Booker Prize, from his backlist, brilliantly rejacketed by Picador in 1997. An unnerving study of power and inadequacy; and the manipulations of family and work life. "One of his generation's finest, with an imagination of rare immediacy and vitality" The Times; "A born storyteller" Daily Telegraph
Intense psychological thriller by Graham Swift, winner of the 1996 Booker Prize, from his backlist, brilliantly rejacketed by Picador in 1997. An unnerving study of power and inadequacy; and the manipulations of family and work life. "One of his generation's finest, with an imagination of rare immediacy and vitality" The Times; "A born storyteller" Daily Telegraph
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- PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0679739335
- ISBN 13 9780679739333
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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