by Graham Swift · Pan Macmillan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330353717
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«Shuttlecock» is Graham Swift's novel, published by Pan Macmillan in hardback (224 pages, in English).
Prentis, an employee dealing with unsolved crimes in the police archives, lives alienated from his family and obsessed with his father, a mute war hero in a mental hospital. When his boss, Mr Quinn, takes an interest in him and his father, he suspects that his father's collapse and Quinn's attitude are connected and that the key lies in memoirs titled 'Shuttlecock'.
The novel was originally published in 1981 and won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1983. Graham Swift is also the author of 'Last Orders', winner of the Booker Prize in 1996.
For readers of contemporary British literary fiction seeking a story with mystery and humour.
Graham Colin Swift FRSL is an English novelist, poet and short story writer.
