Spadework

Name: Spadework
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Timothy Findley
ISBN: 9780571214532

Timothy Findley

02/09/2002
Faber & Faber

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Spadework par Timothy Findley

Résumé

On a summer evening a gardener's spade slices a telephone cable into distant silence. the resulting disconnection is devastating. With the failure of one call to reach the house, an ambitious young actor becomes the victim of sexual blackmail. The blocking of a second call leads tragically to murder. And when the telephone repairman arrives to mend the broken line , his innocent yet irresistible male beauty has explosive consequences.In Spadework, Timothy Findley, a master storyteller, has created an electric wordplay of infidelity and morality. Spadework tells a story that ripples with ever-widening repercussions, a sensual, witty and completely absorbing novel.