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Destiny : A Novel
by Tim Parks
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1559705752
- ISBN 13
- 9781559705752
- Seller
-
Steubenville, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Arcade Publishing, April 2001. Soft Cover. Very Good. No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Gently read. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours.
Synopsis
Christopher Burton, the protagonist of Tim Parks’s masterful new novel, is one of Britain’s foremost foreign correspondents, the acknowledged world expert on Italian affairs. Three months after returning to London with his Italian wife for an extended stay, Burton, while standing at the reception desk of the Rembrandt Hotel in London’s Knightsbridge, receives a phone call informing him that his teenage son has committed suicide. Why, upon receiving this terrible news, does he immediately conclude that his marriage of almost thirty years is over? And why is grief so slow in coming? Burton feels his pious, mercurial wife may have given him his life in Italy--even his prestigious career--but she has also made it impossible. Was their troubled son somehow the victim of their long, explosive love-hate relationship? Looking back, Burton sees in his life a web of contradictions, unanswered questions, and confusions. And yet, it has been destiny.Intensely dramatic, dark, and yet often hilariously funny, Destinyis a seamless, beautifully plotted story and a profound meditation on marriage and identity, at once romantic and callous, brilliant and blind. In Destiny, Parks offers us a searing account of what it means to tread the narrow line between sanity and psychosis.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookmarx Bookstore
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 68302
- Title
- Destiny : A Novel
- Author
- Tim Parks
- Format/Binding
- Soft Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1559705752
- ISBN 13
- 9781559705752
- Publisher
- Arcade Publishing
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- April 2001
- Pages
- 256
Terms of Sale
Bookmarx Bookstore
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Bookmarx Bookstore
Biblio member since 2023
Steubenville, Ohio
About Bookmarx Bookstore
We are a small independent bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio, with a smattering of everything but a special love for the Catholic, Classic, and Literary.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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