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Item Details
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BLACK DIRT
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| By: |
Nell Leyshon |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£7.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0330426400 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780330426404 |
| Publisher: |
PAN MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 2005 |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Description: |
A glorious yet haunting novel about the guilty silences that bind family members together and sometimes keep them apart |
| Synopsis: |
With characters as diverse Christ, the red-breasted robin and kings Arthur and Alfred, BLACK DIRT is the story of Frank and the stories he tells George and Margaret, his adult children. Frank, lying ill in bed, finds his dying dreams haunted by figures from his childhood: his parents, and his older sister Iris, whose existence and terrible crime he has spent long years struggling to forget. Margaret gathers together the random fragments of his recollections and tries to piece together the past -- while George, who has never quite grown-up, struggles to remember even recent events. Revealing the dark and sinister shadows that can shape a child's imagination, BLACK DIRT is a haunting tale of a father and his family, told, like the layering of the earth, in different tones and textures. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Picador |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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