SHUTTLECOCK

SWIFT, Graham

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ISBN 10: 0713914130 ISBN 13: 9780713914139

Published by Allen Lane, London, 1981

Language: English

Condition: Used - Good Hardcover

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Ex-library book. First edition, hardback. Identification number written in large print in black marker on front pastedown endpaper. Remains of library regulations sheet pasted on front pastedown endpaper. 'Discarded' stamp and several 'Casino School of Arts' stamped upon front pastedown. Foxing and staining on edges, endpapers and multiple pages. Boards and spine slightly faded and worn along edges. Corners bumped. Book is in good condition. Dustwrapper is rubbed and discoloured. Some pase residue on both fold backs. Light creasing and rubbing at the edges. Otherwise it is in good condition. *We try to describe the faults of our books meticulously but they usually present better than they sound.

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Title

SHUTTLECOCK

Publisher

Allen Lane, London

Publication Date

1981

Language

English

ISBN 10

0713914130

ISBN 13

9780713914139

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Good

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"An astonishing study of forms of guilt, laced with a thread of detection--and outrageous humor." -The Sunday Times (London)

"A world that is half Kafka, half Orwell--joined on a cord of elegant, tough, swift writing." -San Francisco Examiner

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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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