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Destiny
by Parks, Tim
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1559705175
- ISBN 13
- 9781559705172
- Seller
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Wheatfield, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Arcade Publishing, Incorporated. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1559705175 . A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Flat-signed by author on title page. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Signed by Author .
Synopsis
Christopher Burton, the protagonist of Tim Parks’s masterful new novel, is one of Britain’s foremost foreign correspondents, the acknowledged world expert on Italian affairs. Three months after returning to London with his Italian wife for an extended stay, Burton, while standing at the reception desk of the Rembrandt Hotel in London’s Knightsbridge, receives a phone call informing him that his teenage son has committed suicide. Why, upon receiving this terrible news, does he immediately conclude that his marriage of almost thirty years is over? And why is grief so slow in coming? Burton feels his pious, mercurial wife may have given him his life in Italy--even his prestigious career--but she has also made it impossible. Was their troubled son somehow the victim of their long, explosive love-hate relationship? Looking back, Burton sees in his life a web of contradictions, unanswered questions, and confusions. And yet, it has been destiny.Intensely dramatic, dark, and yet often hilariously funny, Destinyis a seamless, beautifully plotted story and a profound meditation on marriage and identity, at once romantic and callous, brilliant and blind. In Destiny, Parks offers us a searing account of what it means to tread the narrow line between sanity and psychosis.
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- Bookseller
- A Good Read
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10771
- Title
- Destiny
- Author
- Parks, Tim
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1559705175
- ISBN 13
- 9781559705172
- Publisher
- Arcade Publishing, Incorporated
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- 1559705175, ITALY, FICTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL, FATHERS, SONS
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