London: Allen Lane, 1981. First Edition. Signed by Graham Swift without inscription at title page. Octavo. 220pp. Printed dust jacket; green cloth boards stamped in silver. Very light rubbing and toning to edges of dust jacket; shallow chips to top edge of rear flap. Mild shelfwear to extremities of boards; binding sound and pages unmarked; a Near Fine copy of Swift's second novel.

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Title

Shuttlecock [Signed]

Publisher

Allen Lane, London

Publication Date

1981

Language

English

ISBN 10

0713914130

ISBN 13

9780713914139

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Near Fine

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Signed by Author(s)

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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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