Shuttlecock

Graham Swift

ISBN 10: 0140086765 / ISBN 13: 9780140086768

Edité par Penguin, 1986

A propos de cet article

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. 224 pages.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Shuttlecock
• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date de parution: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0140086765
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780140086768
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: Good
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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.