Shuttlecock (Ned)
Swift, Graham
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 behavior 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 humor` - Sunday Times. `A superbly...
ISBN: 978-0-330-51825-3
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: август 2011