The Last Weekend

Blake Morrison

ISBN 10: 009954234X / ISBN 13: 9780099542346

Published by Vintage, 2011

About this Item

2011. Paperback. Set over a long weekend in East Anglia, this title tells the story of a rivalrous friendship - as told with deceptive casualness by the narrator, Ian. It opens with a surprise phone call from an old university friend, inviting Ian and his wife, Em, for a few days by the sea. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 197 x 17. Weight in Grams: 194. . . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Last Weekend
• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 009954234X
• ISBN 13: 9780099542346
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Set over a long weekend in East Anglia, this is the chilling story of a rivalrous friendship - as told with deceptive casualness by the narrator, Ian. It opens with a surprise phone call from an old university friend, inviting Ian and his wife, Em, for a few days by the sea. Their hosts, Ollie and Daisy, are a golden couple, and the scene is set for sunlit relaxation.

But dangerous tensions quickly emerge, and in the stifling atmosphere of a remote cottage in the hottest days of summer, Ollie and Ian resurrect a bet made twenty years before. Each day becomes a series of challenges for higher and higher stakes, setting in train actions that will have irreversible consequences.

About the Author

Born in Skipton, Yorkshire, Blake Morrison is the author of two bestselling memoirs, And When Did You Last See Your Father? and Things My Mother Never Told Me, two novels (most recently the acclaimed South of the River and The Last Weekend), and a study of the Bulger case, As If. He is also a poet, critic, journalist and librettist. He teaches Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College, and lives in south London.