Shuttlecock

Graham Swift

ISBN 10: 1491573732 / ISBN 13: 9781491573730

Published by BRILLIANCE CORP, 2014

About this Item

Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shuttlecock
• Publisher: BRILLIANCE CORP
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1491573732
• ISBN 13: 9781491573730
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Seller catalogs:
  • Bücher

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Synopsis

Prentis, the narrator of this nightmarish novel, catalogs "dead crimes" for a branch of the London Police Department and suspects that he is going crazy. His files keep vanishing. His boss subjects him to cryptic taunts. His family despises him. And as Prentis desperately tries to hold on to the scraps of his sanity, he uncovers a conspiracy of blackmail and betrayal that extends from his department and into the buried past of his father, a war hero code-named "Shuttlecock"—and, lately, a resident of a hospital for the insane.

Review

"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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