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Loving Roger
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Loving Roger
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Tim Parks
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:160 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129 |
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| Category/Genre | Crime and mystery |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780099572589
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| Classifications | Dewey:823.914 |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Vintage Publishing
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| Imprint |
Vintage
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| Publication Date |
14 November 2011 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
A brilliantly concise investigation of how the trials of a relationship can spill over into violence. Tight and disturbing, Loving Roger begins with a dead body and a chilling question. Why has nice, ordinary, affectionate Anna picked up her kitchen knife and murdered the man she insists she loves?... This brief novel is a mordantly illuminating essay on the way love contains the seeds of vindictiveness and hatred'' Observer.
Author Biography
Winner of Betty Trask and Somerset Maugham Awards, Tim Parks has been described as 'among his generation's most gifted writers', 'a writer to watch' and 'the best British author today'.
ReviewsWith his chillingly elegant prose and frighteningly deadpan narrative, Tim Parks has written, not a whodunnit, but a brilliant whydunnit. * Today *
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