On a summer evening a gardener's spade slices a telephone cable into distant silence. the resulting disconnection is devastating. With the failure of one call to reach the house, an ambitious young actor becomes the victim of sexual blackmail. The blocking of a second call leads tragically to murder. And when the telephone repairman arrives to mend the broken line , his innocent yet irresistible male beauty has explosive consequences.In Spadework, Timothy Findley, a master storyteller, has created an electric wordplay of infidelity and morality. Spadework tells a story that ripples with ever-widening repercussions, a sensual, witty and completely absorbing novel.
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Timothy Findley was born in Toronto in 1930. His first career was in the theatre; he was a charter company member of Ontario's Stratford Shakespearean Festival in 1953, and toured several European capitals.In 1963, Findley turned to writing full-time and in 1977 his third novel, The Wars, won a Governor General's Award. It is now considered a Canadian classic. Following his bestsellers such as Famous Last Words, he won an Edgar Award for The Telling of Lies, while his collection of short stories, Stones, won Ontario's Trillium Award.Findley's first work of non-fiction, Inside Memory: Pages from a Writer's Workbook, made him the first two-time winner of a Canadian Authors Association Award; he had earlier won its fiction counterpart for his novel, Not Wanted on the Voyage. He has also written plays, and his third, The Stillborn Lover (1993), won the CAA Drama Award, as well as winning an Arthur Ellis Award and
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Softcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 410pp. Laminated printed light card covers. Small nick in front of dust jacket. Likely unread. Pages tanning. Internally neat, clean and tight. 8vo. By the author of Pilgrim. N° de réf. du vendeur 005919
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Paperback. Etat : Good. On a summer evening a gardener's spade slices a telephone cable into distant silence. the resulting disconnection is devastating. With the failure of one call to reach the house, an ambitious young actor becomes the victim of sexual blackmail. The blocking of a second call leads tragically to murder. And when the telephone repairman arrives to mend the broken line , his innocent yet irresistible male beauty has explosive consequences. In Spadework, Timothy Findley, a master storyteller, has created an electric wordplay of infidelity and morality. Spadework tells a story that ripples with ever-widening repercussions, a sensual, witty and completely absorbing novel. 408 pages. N° de réf. du vendeur 1582403
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Paperback. Etat : Very Good. 432 pages. Spadework was Timothy Findley?s final novel before his death in June 2002. An electric word play of infidelity and morality, it is fitting that the novel is set in Stratford, the town where Findley began his career as an actor. Now in a. N° de réf. du vendeur 1606f
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Paperback. , . NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.Author: Timothy FindleyFormat: Paperback Number of Pages: 432On a summer evening a gardener's spade slices a telephone cable into distant silence. the resulting disconnection is devastating. With the failure of one call to reach the house, an ambitious young actor becomes the victim of sexual blackmail. The blocking of a second call leads tragically to murder. And when the telephone repairman arrives to mend the broken line , his innocent yet irresistible male beauty has explosive consequences.In Spadework, Timothy Findley, a master storyteller, has created an electric wordplay of infidelity and morality. Spadework tells a story that ripples with ever-widening repercussions, a sensual, witty and completely absorbing novel. Paperback. N° de réf. du vendeur 9780571214532-SECONDHAND
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