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Destiny
by Parks, Tim
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1559705175
- ISBN 13
- 9781559705172
- Seller
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Arcade Publishing, 2000. First Edition, First Print. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1559705175 First edition, First printing. Not inscribed clipped or otherwise marked. Shipped in a box. Complete # line 10987654321. F/F
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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- Bookseller
- Garys Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000124
- Title
- Destiny
- Author
- Parks, Tim
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Print.
- ISBN 10
- 1559705175
- ISBN 13
- 9781559705172
- Publisher
- Arcade Publishing
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- ITALY FICTION PSYCHOLOGICAL 1-55970-517-5 *****, GARYS BOOKS
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