Cara Massimina - Softcover

Parks, Tim

3.51

220 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749396806 ISBN 13: 9780749396800

Publisher: Vintage, 1995

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Bored and broke, Morris Duckworth, an English teacher in Verona, stumbles on a plan for financial salvation - to marry Massimina, a seventeen-year-old student. And if his intentions are frustrated by a suspicious, conservative family, is it any fault of his that the lovely girl chooses to elope? Obsessed by self-advancement and excitement, Morris' dreams of blackmail, theft and murder plunge him deep into a chilling nightmare of deception and violence.

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Review:

"A triumph" (Daily Telegraph)

"Sharp and witty, expertly paced, frequently horrific and often very funny" (Times Literary Supplement)

"An unusually classy thriller, true to life and not to be missed" (Independent)

"Entertaining black humour" (Independent on Sunday)

"Tim Parks presents the real, virginal, boastful, cracked Morris lurking behind his own justifications as matters turn lethal and ugly. Clever, blandly humorous and utterly immoral." (The Sunday Times)

Book Description:

A pulsating documentation of a man's descent into criminality.

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