The Chimney Sweeper's Boy

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THE OBITUARIES for Gerald Candless, who had died of a heart attack just days before he was due to have a by-pass operation,
were respectful. He had been, after all, an admired and popular writer, the subject of students' theses and once a candidate for - if not ultimately the winner of - the Booker Prize. His sudden death at his home in north Devon on the cliffs overlooking the sea was a loss to literature as well as to his family and friends.
The trouble was, as his daughter Sarah soon discovered when she embarked on a memoir of him, very few of the facts so confidently printed in the papers were true. Incredible though it might be, and fearful though she was of the effect her discoveries would have on her mother Ursula and her rather emotional sister Hope, it seemed that her father had taken on a different identity at some point in his life that he wasn't Gerald Candless at all. But if he wasn't Gerald Candless, who was he? And what terrible thing had driven him to conceal... Tovább

Fülszöveg

THE OBITUARIES for Gerald Candless, who had died of a heart attack just days before he was due to have a by-pass operation,
were respectful. He had been, after all, an admired and popular writer, the subject of students' theses and once a candidate for - if not ultimately the winner of - the Booker Prize. His sudden death at his home in north Devon on the cliffs overlooking the sea was a loss to literature as well as to his family and friends.
The trouble was, as his daughter Sarah soon discovered when she embarked on a memoir of him, very few of the facts so confidently printed in the papers were true. Incredible though it might be, and fearful though she was of the effect her discoveries would have on her mother Ursula and her rather emotional sister Hope, it seemed that her father had taken on a different identity at some point in his life that he wasn't Gerald Candless at all. But if he wasn't Gerald Candless, who was he? And what terrible thing had driven him to conceal his real identity even from his wife and children?
Once again Barbara Vine has written an extraordinarily rich novel which moves confidently between past and present among a wide range of characters and which has at its centre a compelling mystery.
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Format: Viking hardback 234 x 153mm, 352pp
ISBN: 0670 879274
Price: L16.99
Provisional Publication Date: 26 March 1998 Vissza