Prodigies - Softcover

King, Francis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1900850559 ISBN 13: 9781900850551

Publisher: Arcadia Books Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

In a richly inventive novel King deploys all his formidable skills as a storyteller and brings to life both real life characters and the extraordinary diversity of imagined people met on their African odyssey.

About this title

About the Author:

Francis King is a former International President of PEN and drama critic of the Sunday Telegraph. His fiction includes Act of Darkness, Dead Letters, and The Custom House. Arcadia published Prodigies to great acclaim in 2001, while his 28th novel The Nick of Time was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2003, attracting critical praise from Harold Pinter, Antonia Fraser, Beryl Bainbridge, Penelope Lively, and Margaret Drabble.

Review:

"It is a rare pleasure to know from the very first page of a new novel that you are in for a treat. Francis King immediately grabs the reader's attention with an apparently effortless mastery" Louise Guiness, Evening Standard"Francis King, one of the finest contemporary novelists, is prolific, fluent, witty and moving."Melvyn Bragg"At first glance, Prodigies, with its focus on social constrictions and sweeping scale, seems more like a nineteenth-century novel than a contemporary one. And yet the book defies all expectations in a thoroughly modern and audacious way."Literary Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Arcadia Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1900850559
• ISBN 13: 9781900850551
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368