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1981 (UK), 1985 (US) Media type. Print & audio. Pages. 224. ISBN. 0-7139-1413-0. Shuttlecock, described as a psychological thriller, was Graham Swift 's second novel, [1] published in 1981 by Allen Lane. It won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1983 and was released as a film in 1993.
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1 de ene. de 1981 · An oddity of a novel: a bullying father and husband fixated unhealthily on his employer, the mysterious Quinn, and his war hero father, is given the opportunity to discover whether that father was actually as heroic as he claimed or rather a traitor and liar.
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Shuttlecock is the odd, tense narrative of a man known only as Prentis, a senior clerk in an obscure government agency which collects and preserves information pertaining to closed cases and...
About Shuttlecock. 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.
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3 de mar. de 1992 · 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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Barry J. Fishman '89, Brown University. [ Victorian Web Home —> Neo-Victorianism —> Graham Swift —> Shuttlecock] Shuttlecock (Allen Lane, 1981) is a wonderful combination of a Swiftian novel with a detective novel.
Shuttlecock, descrita como un thriller psicológico, fuela segunda novela de Graham Swift , publicada en 1981 por Allen Lane. Ganó el premio Geoffrey Faber Memorial en 1983 y se estrenó como película en 1993.
