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Item Details
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A MAN OF GOOD ABILITIES
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| By: |
Tony Parker |
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Paperback |
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£14.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
057130432X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571304325 |
| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
15 August, 2013 |
| Pages: |
206 |
| Description: |
Tells the story of 65 year-old 'Norman Edwards', a compulsive swindler-embezzler for his whole adult life, one punctuated by numerous ineffective terms of imprisonment. |
| Synopsis: |
First published in 1967, A Man of Good Abilities was Tony Parker's fifth book, and told the story of 65 year-old 'Norman Edwards', a compulsive swindler-embezzler for his whole adult life, one punctuated by numerous ineffective terms of imprisonment. Using journals, letters, and interview transcripts Parker drew a finessing portrait of a man and a seemingly intractable problem that he posed to society. "Tony Parker is a remarkably skilled and compassionate exponent of the documentary technique that he uses to illumine human character; with him, tape-recorded conversations are the stuff of art, not of mere photography". (New Society). "In his books the strength lies in the interpretive mind of the writer...He is a sociologist studying single cases in some depth and shows qualities of imagination shared by the historian and the biographer - a mixture of intelligence, sympathy and empathy". (TLS). |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Faber & Faber |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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