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Description for The Fall
Paperback. * An irresistible narrative of courage and endeavour. A story that captures nature at its most beautiful and most brutal and which unlocks the intricacies at the heart of human relationships. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 110 x 30. Weight in Grams: 304. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean
Rob and Jamie are great friends from childhood. They have grown up together and become top climbers, but have since become estranged. Rob is nevertheless amazed and grief-stricken when he hears of Jamie's death after a fall on a relatively easy Welsh rockface. The past, though, hides the secret clues behind the tragedy. Layer by layer Simon Mawer peels back what happened, going not only into the friends' childhoods but that of their parents - who were also intimate. And there is no escaping that past - vividly imagined scenes in the London of the Blitz reveal how through two ... Read more
Rob and Jamie are great friends from childhood. They have grown up together and become top climbers, but have since become estranged. Rob is nevertheless amazed and grief-stricken when he hears of Jamie's death after a fall on a relatively easy Welsh rockface. The past, though, hides the secret clues behind the tragedy. Layer by layer Simon Mawer peels back what happened, going not only into the friends' childhoods but that of their parents - who were also intimate. And there is no escaping that past - vividly imagined scenes in the London of the Blitz reveal how through two ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Abacus
Condition
Used, Good
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349116525
SKU
KSS0007242
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Simon Mawer
Simon Mawer was born in 1948 in England, and spent his childhood there, in Cyprus and in Malta. He now lives with his wife and two children in Italy, and teaches at the English School in Rome.
Reviews for The Fall
Wonderful and surprising. An absolute joy to read. Simon Mawer has entered the first rank of British novelists Beryl Bainbridge Simon Mawer's work is rich with a desire to see through to the core of things OBSERVER A haiku in ice ... His narrative surges with an energy that thrusts the story forward to the very last page, from which ... Read more