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A Case of Knives: reissued
Candia McWilliam
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Description for A Case of Knives: reissued
Paperback. The prize-winning debut novel from the author of What to Look for in Winter Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 224.
______________________ SHORTLISTED FOR THE WHITBREAD BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK AWARD ______________________ 'A first novel of formidable accomplishment ... a debut of the highest promise' - Sunday Times 'No new writer can make a more stunning entrance than Candia McWilliam' - Daily Mail 'An incisive debut, intelligent, scrupulously planned and full of echoes ... fascinating' - Spectator ______________________ Lucas Salik is a heart surgeon, renowned for performing bold experiments on other people's hearts. Ostensibly chilly, he harbours a secret obsession for his reckless and charismatic friend Hal. When Hal announces his ... Read more
______________________ SHORTLISTED FOR THE WHITBREAD BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK AWARD ______________________ 'A first novel of formidable accomplishment ... a debut of the highest promise' - Sunday Times 'No new writer can make a more stunning entrance than Candia McWilliam' - Daily Mail 'An incisive debut, intelligent, scrupulously planned and full of echoes ... fascinating' - Spectator ______________________ Lucas Salik is a heart surgeon, renowned for performing bold experiments on other people's hearts. Ostensibly chilly, he harbours a secret obsession for his reckless and charismatic friend Hal. When Hal announces his ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408822968
SKU
V9781408822968
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99-10
About Candia McWilliam
Candia McWilliam was born in Edinburgh. She is the author of A Case of Knives (1988), which won a Betty Trask Prize, A Little Stranger (1989), Debatable Land (1994), which was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize and its Italian translation the Premio Grinzane Cavour for the best foreign novel of the year, and a collection of stories Wait Till I ... Read more
Reviews for A Case of Knives: reissued
'A first novel of formidable accomplishment ... a debut of the highest promise
Sunday Times
'Poised, startling and innovative, A Case of Knives marks the debut of an astonishingly accomplished new writer'
Anita Brookner
'No new writer can make a more stunning entrance than Candia McWilliam
Daily Mail
'An incisive debut, intelligent, scrupulously planned ... Read more
Sunday Times
'Poised, startling and innovative, A Case of Knives marks the debut of an astonishingly accomplished new writer'
Anita Brookner
'No new writer can make a more stunning entrance than Candia McWilliam
Daily Mail
'An incisive debut, intelligent, scrupulously planned ... Read more