Frozen Music (Arena Novella S.) - Softcover

King, Francis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099584204 ISBN 13: 9780099584209

Publisher: Arena Arrow, 1988

Synopsis

Disturbing revelations of the past and present merge when twenty years after abandoning India, Rupert, his father, and his father's sensual young bride return to visit the grave of Rupert's mother, who had died there at a tragically young age

About this title

Book Description:

From the Man Booker long-listed author of The Nick of Time, The Dividing Stream and A Domestic Animal

About the Author:

Born in Switzerland, Francis King spent his childhood in India, where his father was a government official. While still an undergraduate at Oxford he published his first three novels. He then joined the British Council, working in Italy, Greece, Egypt, Finland and Japan, before he resigned to devote himself entirely to writing. For some years he was drama critic for the Sunday Telegraph and he reviewed fiction regularly for the Spectator. He won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Katherine Mansfield Prize and the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year Award for Act of Darkness (1983). His penultimate book, The Nick of Time, was long-listed for the 2003 Man Booker Prize. Francis King died in 2011.

"One of our great writers, of the calibre of Graham Greene and Nabokov." Beryl Bainbridge

About this edition

• Publisher: Arena Arrow
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0099584204
• ISBN 13: 9780099584209
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144