by Timothy Findley · HarperCollins Canada / Fiction · tapa dura · ISBN 9780002005494
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«Headhunter» is Timothy Findley's dystopian novel, published by HarperCollins Canada in hardback (575 pages, in English).
In a future Toronto devastated by pollution and plague, Lilah Kemp, an unemployed librarian and spiritualist with schizophrenia, accidentally releases the sinister Kurtz from the pages of Heart of Darkness. To return him to fiction, she desperately seeks a new Marlow, in a dystopia that reinterprets Joseph Conrad's classic as a fable about power and corruption.
Commemorative hardback edition of the novel, originally published in 1993; this edition dates from 2002.
For readers of literary fiction and dystopias, with an interest in reinterpretations of classics and contemporary Canadian literature.
Timothy Irving Frederick Findley was a Canadian novelist and playwright. He was also informally known by the nickname Tiff or Tiffy, an acronym of his initials.
