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Loving Roger

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Loving Roger
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Tim Parks
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:160
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreCrime and mystery
ISBN/Barcode 9780099572589
ClassificationsDewey:823.914
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Vintage Publishing
Imprint Vintage
Publication Date 14 November 2011
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

A brilliantly concise investigation of how the trials of a relationship can spill over into violence. Tight and disturbing, Loving Roger begins with a dead body and a chilling question. Why has nice, ordinary, affectionate Anna picked up her kitchen knife and murdered the man she insists she loves?... This brief novel is a mordantly illuminating essay on the way love contains the seeds of vindictiveness and hatred'' Observer.

Author Biography

Winner of Betty Trask and Somerset Maugham Awards, Tim Parks has been described as 'among his generation's most gifted writers', 'a writer to watch' and 'the best British author today'.

Reviews

With his chillingly elegant prose and frighteningly deadpan narrative, Tim Parks has written, not a whodunnit, but a brilliant whydunnit. * Today *