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Absolution
Patrick Flanery
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Description for Absolution
Paperback. Patrick Flanery is an exceptionally gifted novelist, and he is just getting started' Philip Gourevitch, New Yorker Following the critical acclaim for this muscular debut novel, Flanery has confirmed himself, quite simply, as a literary star. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 29. Weight in Grams: 300.
In her garden, ensconced in the lush vegetation of the Western Cape, Clare Wald, world-renowned author, mother, critic, takes up her pen and confronts her life. Sam Leroux has returned to South Africa to embark upon a project that will establish his reputation - he is to write Clare's biography. But how honest is she prepared to be? Was she complicit in crimes lurking in South Africa's past; is she an accomplice or a victim? Are her crimes against her family real or imagined? In the stories she weaves and the truth just below the surface of her shimmering prose, lie Sam's own ghosts.
Product Details
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
290g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857892027
SKU
V9780857892027
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99-50
About Patrick Flanery
Patrick Flanery was born in California in 1975 and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. After earning a BFA in Film from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts he worked for three years in the film industry before moving to the UK, where he completed a doctorate in Twentieth-Century English Literature at the University of Oxford. As well as publishing scholarly articles on British and South African literature and film in a number of academic journals, he has written for Slightly Foxed and The Times Literary Supplement. He lives in London.
Reviews for Absolution
Absolution is a bold calling card from a major new writer
Independent on Sunday, 'Books of the Year'
Patrick Flanery is an exceptionally gifted novelist, and he is just getting started
Philip Gourevitch
New Yorker
Flanery's portrayal of South Africa is explosively powerful... An exceptionally intelligent, multi-layered novel encompassing politics, history, a gripping storyline and complex characters. It has absorbing depictions of grief, guilt, parenthood and sibling rivalry, and is beautifully written... Absolution is an exceptional book.
Independent
A taut literary thriller set in South Africa... A very clever, beautifully written book where the reader is constantly adjusting to nothing being as it seems.
Daily Mail
Compelling... At times, Flanery's prose evokes Graham Greene... A literary thriller whose writing is consistently first class.
Observer
Gripping... The prose surges with enjoyable debate about the slipperiness of truth, the nature of forgiveness... Impressive
Sunday Telegraph
Independent on Sunday, 'Books of the Year'
Patrick Flanery is an exceptionally gifted novelist, and he is just getting started
Philip Gourevitch
New Yorker
Flanery's portrayal of South Africa is explosively powerful... An exceptionally intelligent, multi-layered novel encompassing politics, history, a gripping storyline and complex characters. It has absorbing depictions of grief, guilt, parenthood and sibling rivalry, and is beautifully written... Absolution is an exceptional book.
Independent
A taut literary thriller set in South Africa... A very clever, beautifully written book where the reader is constantly adjusting to nothing being as it seems.
Daily Mail
Compelling... At times, Flanery's prose evokes Graham Greene... A literary thriller whose writing is consistently first class.
Observer
Gripping... The prose surges with enjoyable debate about the slipperiness of truth, the nature of forgiveness... Impressive
Sunday Telegraph