| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780679739333 | | Publisher: Vintage Books | | Publish Date: 4/10/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 30635064 | | Item#: RK2RGY | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8H x 5.25L x 0.75T | | Pages: 220 |
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| | | 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.
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On the surface a psychological thriller, "Shuttlecock" follows the career of Prentis, a law-enforcement investigator. Alienated from his wife and children, and obsessed by the actions of his father (now a resident in a mental ward) as a spy during World War II, Prentis feels increasingly unsettled as his enigmatic boss, Mr. Quinn, turns his investigations towards himself--and his father.
| Author Bio| Graham Swift | | Graham Swift has both a B.A. and an M.A. from Cambridge, and taught English part-time while he wrote fiction until his third novel WATERLAND (1983) won the Booker Prize. Many of his works deal with the difficulty of human relationships, the search for meaning in the face of man's inevitable alienation, and the inescapable influence of history on our lives. |
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