Summer Of The Cicada
$26.96
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2006
Summary
‘A new, dark and disturbing voice’ - Bernard MacLaverty
It’s 1987 and Joseph Pullman and his parents have just moved to Maritime, Maryland. This is white-picket-fence America, but for fifteen-year-old Joseph the threat of violence at home is as unrelenting as the punishment he receives at school, and his mother is slowly slipping away from reality.
Joseph forms an uneasy friendship with the awkward Dean Gillespie and the boys occupy themselves burying animal corpses at the Kil…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099472230 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099472236 |
| Author: | Will Napier |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2006 |
| Weight: | 225g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 22mm |
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Like To Kill a Mockingbird rewritten from the viewpoint of Boo Radley
Like To Kill a Mockingbird rewritten from the viewpoint of Boo Radley * Scotland on Sunday *Supremely well imagined…Frequently brilliant and consistently unsettling, Summer of the Cicada will remain with you for quite a while * Independent *The opening scene of Summer of the Cicada lodges itself in the mind and stays there until the final page… the ferocity of the violence, combined with the matter-of-fact way the scene unfolds, leaves an unforgettble impression… It is a measure of the artistry Will Napier brings to his first novel that the harrowing subject matter does not make for a depressing read * Sunday Telegraph *Brilliantly disturbing * Scotsman *‘An American version of Iain Banks’ Wasp Factory’ Rachel Hore, Guardian‘The power of the world Summer of the Cicada creates is bleak and undeniable’ Sunday Herald
About The Author
Will Napier
Will Napier has split his adult life between Scotland and America. He now resides in Atlantic Beach, Florida with his wife and four children. His second novel, Without Warning, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2012. He is writing his third novel and completing a collection of short fiction.
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