On a summer evening a gardener's spade slices a telephone cable into distant silence. The resulting disconnection is devastating. With the failure of one call to reach the house, an ambitious young actor becomes the victim of sexual blackmail. The blocking of a second call leads tragically to murder. And when the telephone repairman arrives to mend the broken line, his innocent yet irresistible male beauty has explosive consequences. In Spadework, Timothy Findley, a master storyteller, has created an electric word-play of infidelity and morality. Spadework tells a story that ripples with ever-widening repercussions, a sensual, witty and completely absorbing novel.
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Timothy Findley was born in Toronto in 1930. His first career was in the theatre; he was a charter company member of Ontario's Stratford Shakespearean Festival in 1953, and toured several European capitals.$$$In 1963, Findley turned to writing full-time and in 1977 his third novel, The Wars, won a Governor General's Award. It is now considered a Canadian classic. Following his bestsellers such as Famous Last Words, he won an Edgar Award for The Telling of Lies, while his collection of short stories, Stones, won Ontario's Trillium Award.$$$Findley's first work of non-fiction, Inside Memory: Pages from a Writer's Workbook, made him the first two-time winner of a Canadian Authors Association Award; he had earlier won its fiction counterpart for his novel, Not Wanted on the Voyage. He has also written plays, and his third, The Stillborn Lover (1993), won the CAA Drama Award, as well as winning an Arthur Ellis Award and Chalmers Award. His later novels include Headhunter (1993) and The Piano Man's Daughter (1995). His most recent play, Elizabeth Rex, was produced at the 2000 Stratford Festival in Canada.$$$Along with the likes of Michael Ondaatje and Margaret Atwood, Timothy Findley has become one of Canada's most acclaimed and best-selling authors. In 2000, Faber published Pilgrim and reissued The Wars and Famous Last Words. His last novel, Spadework, was published in 2002, the year in which Timothy Findley died.
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Librería: BookAddiction (IOBA, IBooknet), Canterbury, Reino Unido
Softcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 410pp. Laminated printed light card covers. Small nick in front of dust jacket. Likely unread. Pages tanning. Internally neat, clean and tight. 8vo. By the author of Pilgrim. Nº de ref. del artículo: 005919
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Librería: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Reino Unido
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Librería: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, Nueva Zelanda
Paperback. Condición: Good. On a summer evening a gardener's spade slices a telephone cable into distant silence. the resulting disconnection is devastating. With the failure of one call to reach the house, an ambitious young actor becomes the victim of sexual blackmail. The blocking of a second call leads tragically to murder. And when the telephone repairman arrives to mend the broken line , his innocent yet irresistible male beauty has explosive consequences. In Spadework, Timothy Findley, a master storyteller, has created an electric wordplay of infidelity and morality. Spadework tells a story that ripples with ever-widening repercussions, a sensual, witty and completely absorbing novel. 408 pages. Nº de ref. del artículo: 1582403
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Librería: Ammareal, Morangis, Francia
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Librería: Book Express (NZ), Shannon, Nueva Zelanda
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 432 pages. Spadework was Timothy Findley?s final novel before his death in June 2002. An electric word play of infidelity and morality, it is fitting that the novel is set in Stratford, the town where Findley began his career as an actor. Now in a Perennial Canada edition, Spadework will join Findley?s wonderful body of work, a collection to be enjoyed again and again. Known for his gift in plumbing the d epths of the human condition, Findley digs deep in Spadework with a cast of char acters, each one motivated by addictions and ambitions, each one very alone. Set in the steamy summer of 1998, events such as the Lewinsky scandal, a hostage-ta king in Peru and a severed phone line connect?and disconnect?a story singed by l ust, power, adultery and ambition. A bestseller in cloth and a smash hit in mass market, Spadework ?s Perennial edition will appeal to Findley?s legion of liter ary fans. Nº de ref. del artículo: 1606f
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Librería: BUCHSERVICE / ANTIQUARIAT Lars Lutzer, Wahlstedt, Alemania
Softcover. Condición: gut. Spadework In englischer Sprache. pages. Nº de ref. del artículo: BN107188
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