Spies Contributor(s): Frayn, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312421176 ISBN-13: 9780312421175 Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: January 2003 Annotation: In gripping prose charged with emotional intensity, this national bestseller by the author of "Headlong" reaches into the moral confusion of two boys in wartime London to reveal a reality filled with deceptions and betrayals, where the bonds of friendship, marriage, and family are unraveled by cowardice and erotic desire. Click for more in this series: Recent Picador Highlights |
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BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
Dewey: FIC |
Series: Recent Picador Highlights |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" L (0.70 lbs) 272 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Friendship |
Features: Price on Product |
Review Citations: New York Times 01/05/2003 pg. 16 Booksense '76 Reading Grp 04 05/01/2004 pg. 1 |
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Publisher Description: The National Bestseller The sudden trace of a disturbing, forgotten aroma compels Stephen Wheatley to return to the site of a dimly remembered but troubling childhood summer in wartime London. As he pieces together his scattered memories, we are brought back to a quiet, suburban street where two boys--Keith and his sidekick, Stephen--are engaged in their own version of the war effort: spying on the neighbors, recording their movements, and ferreting out their secrets. But when Keith utters six shocking words, the boy's game of espionage takes a sinister and unintended turn, transforming a wife's simple errands and the ordinary rituals of family life into the elements of adult catastrophe. Childhood and innocence, secrecy, lies and repressed violence are all gently laid bare as once again Michael Frayn powerfully demonstrates that what appears to be happening in front of our eyes often turns out to be something we cannot see at all. |
Contributor Bio(s): Frayn, Michael: - Michael Frayn is the author of ten novels, including the bestselling Headlong, which was a New York Times Editors' Choice selection and a Booker Prize finalist, and Spies, which received the Whitbread Fiction Award. He has also written a memoir, My Father's Fortune, and fifteen plays, among them Noises Off and Copenhagen, which won three Tony Awards. He lives just south of London. |
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