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Shuttlecock, described as a psychological thriller, was Graham Swift's second novel, published in 1981 by Allen Lane. It won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1983 and was released as a film in 1993.
1 janv. 2001 · Any one wanting to investigate Shuttlecock will find a well-written book with a convincing main character which struggles to meet its intriguing premise.
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...
Détaché de sa femme et de ses enfants, et obsédé par son père, héros de guerre, aujourd'hui pensionnaire muet d'un asile d'aliénés, Prentis se sent de plus en plus troublé lorsque son énigmatique patron, M. Quinn, se met à enquêter sur lui - et sur son père.
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.
Shuttlecock. Graham Swift. Pan Macmillan, Jan 26, 2012 - Fiction - 256 pages. ‘Serious, moving and often very funny indeed’ Observer. Prentis, senior clerk in the ‘dead crimes’ department of...
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...
