The Quarry

Galgut, Damon

ISBN 10: 0771032714 / ISBN 13: 9780771032714

Published by McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, Ont., 2005

About this Item

First edition, first printing as evidenced by a complete number line from 1 to 5; signed by Damon Galgut on the title page with no inscription at the Vancouver International Writers Festival; some edge wear to boards and dust jacket; otherwise a solid, clean copy in collectible condition; dust jacket is protected by a Brodart sleeve.

Seller Inventory # 002963

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Quarry
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, Ont.
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0771032714
• ISBN 13: 9780771032714
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Canadian First.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good, Not Price Clipped
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Book

About this title

Synopsis

Damon Galgut stepped prominently onto the international stage with the publication of The Good Doctor. He has been compared to J.M. Coetzee, Graham Greene, and Joseph Conrad, but his voice is truly his own. The Quarry, written ten years ago but never before published outside South Africa, is a stark, intense, and crystalline novel in which human nature is set against the desolate backdrop of rural South Africa.

On a lonely stretch of road a man picks up a hitchhiker. The driver is a minister on his way to a new congregation in an isolated village and the passenger is a nameless fugitive from justice. When the minister realizes this, and confronts his passenger as they are overlooking an empty quarry, the fugitive kills him and assumes his vestments and identity, only todiscover that one of his first duties as the new minister is to bury the body of his victim. Despite hints that two local petty criminals may be responsible, the local police chief is watching the new minister, and as the two play a tense game of cat and mouse,culminating in a desperate pursuit across the veldt, Damon Galgut gives us a spare, devastating combat for man’s most prized attribute: freedom.

About the Author

Published now for the first time in Canada, Damon Galgut is a playwright and author of several novels and short story collections. His debut novel, A Sinless Season, published when he was just seventeen, was a literary success. His other novels include The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs, winner of the 1992 CNA Award, A Small Circle of Beings, and The Quarry, which was made into a feature film that won the award for Best Film at the 1998 Montreal Film Festival. His plays include Echoes of Angers, Party for Mother, Alive and Kicking, and The Green’s Keeper.

Damon Galgut was born in Pretoria in 1963. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa.