Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
ISBN 10 | 198487843 |
Book Format | Paperback |
Editor | Dr Patrick Wiegand |
About the Author | James Scudamore is the author of two previous novels. His first, The Amnesia Clinic, won the 2007 Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for four other prizes, including the Costa First Novel Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. His second, Heliopolis, was longlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize. He has held two fellowships at the University of East Anglia, and is on the MFA faculty of City University Hong Kong. |
Language | English |
Number of Pages | 48 |
ISBN 13 | 9780198487845 |
Author | Patrick Wiegand |
Language | English |
Book Description | Three solitary characters remember their shared past in a sprawling, derelict psychiatric hospital on the English coast: a turbulent summer in the aftermath of the hospital's closure that culminated in a shocking, life-altering accident. But the more each tries to comprehend the past, the more elusive it becomes. Wreaking is an intricate, labyrinthine novel about the opiate power of place, the fragility of sanity and the fickle nature of memory. |
Parental Rating | 5+ |
Publication Date | 40605 |