Throw Me To The Wolves (Signed 1st Edition)

Patrick McGuinness

ISBN 10: 1787331466 / ISBN 13: 9781787331464

Published by Jonathan Cape, 2019

About this Item

Black boards with gilt titles to the spine. Clean pages. Firm binding, Signed by the author to the title page. Jacket is not price clipped. First print. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging and dust jackets are placed in removable protective covers.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Throw Me To The Wolves (Signed 1st Edition)
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1787331466
• ISBN 13: 9781787331464
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed By Author

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Synopsis

A young woman has been murdered, and a neighbour, a retired teacher from Chapleton College, is arrested. An eccentric loner intellectual, shy, a fastidious dresser with expensive tastes he is the perfect candidate for a media monstering.In custody he is interviewed by two the smart-talking, quick-witted Gary, and his watchful colleague, Ander. Ander is always watchful, but particularly now, because the man across the table is his former teacher Michael Wolphram whom he hasnt seen in nearly 30 years.As the novel proceeds, we watch Wolphrams media lynching as ex-pupils and colleagues line up to lie about him. In parallel, we read Anders memories of his life as a young Dutch boy in 80s England. Another outsider, another loner in a school system rife with abuse and bullying, Ander has another case to the cold case of his own childhood.Though it deals with historical abuse and violence in schools, and the corrupt power of the popular media, Throw Me to the Wolves is mostly about childhood and memory. A perceptive and pertinent novel of our times, beautifully written and psychologically acute, it manages to be both very funny and at the same time shatteringly sad.