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Destiny
by Parks, Tim
- Used
- Acceptable
- Paperback
- Condition
- Acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 0099284944
- ISBN 13
- 9780099284949
- Seller
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Vintage, 2000-07-06. Paperback. Acceptable. 8x5x1. Wear creasing and to cover. Same day dispatch (Mon- Fri) from the UK if ordered by 1pm.
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
- Cambridge Recycled Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- FICT211013036
- Title
- Destiny
- Author
- Parks, Tim
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0099284944
- ISBN 13
- 9780099284949
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000-07-06
- Size
- 8x5x1
- X weight
- 6 oz
Terms of Sale
Cambridge Recycled Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Cambridge Recycled Books
Biblio member since 2019
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
About Cambridge Recycled Books
An online bookshop based in Cambridge, buying and selling secondhand books. Same day dispatch of orders placed before 1pm, Mon-Fri.
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