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The Paperchase
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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The Paperchase
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Marcel Theroux
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:288 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 126 |
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| Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780571296866
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| Classifications | Dewey:823.92 |
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| Edition |
Main
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Faber & Faber
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| Imprint |
Faber & Faber
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| Publication Date |
6 March 2014 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Damien March is a disconsolate journalist working the nightshift at the BBC in London. He hasn't thought of his eccentric uncle for 20 years and so is shocked when he learns that he has inherited his uncle's ramshackle house on an isolated island off the coast of Cape Cod. Without a relationship compelling enough to keep him in his humdrum life, Damien decides to take off to the Cape. But his new future means confronting his family's past. And when he discovers a fragment of an unpublished mystery novel, the parallels with his uncle's life quickly become disconcerting and sinister.
Author Biography
Marcel Theroux is the author of four previous novels, A Blow to the Heart, A Stranger in the Earth, The Paperchase, winner of the 2002 Somerset Maugham Award, and Far North which was short-listed for the America's prestigious National Book Award.
ReviewsExquisitely calculated...very satisfying. John Lanchester A smartly written, atmospheric novel. Independent An engaging mystery and an illuminating story about family secrets and identity. The Times
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