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A flawless fictional debut from a great young writer, shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award.In 1983, an ordinary teenager called Daniel Rathbone fell in love, spurned a friend, and stumbled on the ability to see in the dark. On his twenty-fifth birthday, Daniel is bequeathed a second no less unusual gift - a Victorian writing box, the legacy of his father and the repository of his youthful secrets, and of his current feelings of guilt. When a visit from the once-spurned friend, Carey Schumacher, coincides with the death of a contemporary, Daniel's peculiar endowments are enlisted to make lasting sense of lost time and place.From Bath to Brixton, from the 1960s to the 90s, The Oversight follows a trail of thwarted and victorious affections. It is an intently comic tale of vision and delusion; of family, friendship and desertion; and of the divisively cruel need to belong. A multi-layered debut of distinction.
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The Oversight, Will Eaves
- Taal
- Jaar van publicatie
- 2002
- Bindwijze
- (Paperback)
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- Titel
- The Oversight
- Taal
- Engels
- Auteurs
- Will Eaves
- Uitgever
- Picador
- Jaar van publicatie
- 2002
- Formaat
- Paperback
- Aantal pagina's
- 288
- ISBN10
- 0330481401
- ISBN13
- 9780330481403
- Reeks
- Categorieën
- Tags
- LGBTQ+
- Aantekening
- A flawless fictional debut from a great young writer, shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award.In 1983, an ordinary teenager called Daniel Rathbone fell in love, spurned a friend, and stumbled on the ability to see in the dark. On his twenty-fifth birthday, Daniel is bequeathed a second no less unusual gift - a Victorian writing box, the legacy of his father and the repository of his youthful secrets, and of his current feelings of guilt. When a visit from the once-spurned friend, Carey Schumacher, coincides with the death of a contemporary, Daniel's peculiar endowments are enlisted to make lasting sense of lost time and place.From Bath to Brixton, from the 1960s to the 90s, The Oversight follows a trail of thwarted and victorious affections. It is an intently comic tale of vision and delusion; of family, friendship and desertion; and of the divisively cruel need to belong. A multi-layered debut of distinction.