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Destiny
by Tim Parks
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used; Good
- ISBN 10
- 1559705175
- ISBN 13
- 9781559705172
- Seller
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Port Neches, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Used; Good. 2-B-13 Arcade Publishing 2000 Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front free end page. There are a few pages with light pencil underlining which does not obscure text. Jacket has light wear. Book Condition; Good Jacket Condition; Good . 2000. HARDCOVER.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Galveston Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9781559705172
- Title
- Destiny
- Author
- Tim Parks
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used; Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1559705175
- ISBN 13
- 9781559705172
- Publisher
- Arcade Publishing
- Place of Publication
- New York, Ny
- Date Published
- 2000
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Port Neches, Texas
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Fleur Fine Books carries a wide range of books including a very large selection of Science Fiction & Fantasy, we are constantly adding to our Texana section, we carry many signed editions, including signed limited editions and books signed in our store during author visits.
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