Oversight

Author: Will Eaves

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  • : $21.00 AUD
  • : 9780330481403
  • : Pan Macmillan
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  • : 0.18
  • : March 2002
  • : 1.7 Centimeters X 13.2 Centimeters X 19.8 Centimeters
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  • : 21.0
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  • : Will Eaves
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  • : Paperback
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  • : English
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Barcode 9780330481403
9780330481403

Description

A remarkable and haunting first novel, this is a debut from an original voice that really stands out from the crowd.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, or "slope", the legacy of his father and the repository both of youthful ambition and of a dimly perceived guilt. The box is opened, but its contents resist interpretation.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.