Prisoner's Dilemma (Collier Fiction) - Softcover

Powers, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 002036055X ISBN 13: 9780020360551

Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD, 1989

Synopsis

Eddie Hobson is quickly succumbing to a mysterious illness, and his children draw on the World War II veteran's dictaphone-recorded construction of an imaginary utopia for clues to their father's illness

About this title

Review:

"We happily pitch ourselves into Scobie Malone's wonderful adventures in Aussie-land...real thrills and surprising laughs."--"New York Times"When the ruminants and lucre-chasers are growing lichen on library shelves, Jon Cleary will continue to be read."--"Los Angeles Times"The Malone stories come alive through their setting...Cleary's writing is seamless and his plots imaginative and mature."--"Miami Herald"Enough plot twists and conspiracy-making ingredients to satisfy the most demanding aficionado of the genre."--"Irish Times"The business of a novelist is to tell a story. Jon Cleary has that talent in abundance."--"Sunday Express

Book Description:

A novel of compassion and and imagination from the virtuosic author of The Echo Maker, Pulitzer Prize finalist Richard Powers. Prisoner's Dilemma tells the story of the triumph of the mind over infirmity.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 002036055X
• ISBN 13: 9780020360551
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 348