
The Murderer
by Roy Heath
Title:
The Murderer
Author:
Roy Heath
Series (if any):
Penguin Modern Classics
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
224 pages
Publisher:
TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale
ISBN-13:
9780241552728
EAN:
9780241552728
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
290
Dimensions (mm):
128 x 198 x 17
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
For me life hasn't got dreams, success and all that damn nonsense. Life is full of shadows: some of them soft and others conceal a hammer.'Galton Flood is a lonely man, restless and ill at ease with his family. He leaves his home in Guyana's capital, Georgetown, for a remote township, and the first of a string of precarious jobs. Meeting Gemma, his landlord's daughter, appears to offer a first chance of meaningful connection - maybe even happiness. But there is a darkness inside Galton, and soon jealousy and paranoia lead him to fatally, violently unravel.With this haunting portrait of a mind undone, celebrated Guyanese writer Roy Heath evocatively recreates the country of his youth: its rivers, townships and tenement yards, and the tensions shimmering below the surface of a community.




















