Shuttlecock

Swift, Graham

ISBN 10: 0330518259 / ISBN 13: 9780330518253

Published by Picador, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shuttlecock
• Publisher: Picador
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0330518259
• ISBN 13: 9780330518253
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Like New
• Weight: 210 grams

About this title

Synopsis

‘Serious, moving and often very funny indeed’ Observer

Prentis, senior clerk in the ‘dead crimes’ department of police archives, is becoming more and more confused.

Alienated from his wife and children, and obsessed by his father, a wartime hero now the mute inmate of a mental hospital, Prentis feels increasingly unsettled as his enigmatic boss, Mr Quinn, turns his investigation towards him – and his father.

Gradually Prentis suspects that his father’s breakdown and Quinn’s menacing behaviour are connected and the link is to be found in his father’s memoirs, ‘Shuttlecock’ . . .

‘Excellent, profound’ Alan Hollinghurst, London Review of Books

‘An astonishing study of forms of guilt, laced with a thread of detection, and puckering now and then into outrageous humour’ Sunday Times

‘A superbly written claustrophobic account of power that corrupts private and public life and of guilt that becomes obsession’ Daily Telegraph

‘Swift’s central strength as a writer is his integrity. Story and character are treated with a seriousness and respect that while allowing for the oddity of human behaviour – Shuttlecock is thoroughly and beautifully odd – always honours them’ Times Literary Supplement

About the Author

Graham Swift was born in 1949 and is the author of many acclaimed novels, two collections of short stories (England and Other Stories, and Learning to Swim and Other Stories) and Making an Elephant, a book of essays, portraits, poetry and reflections on his life in writing. With Waterland he won the Guardian Fiction Prize (1983), and with Last Orders the Booker Prize (1996). Both novels have since been made into films. Graham Swift's work has appeared in over thirty languages.