The Nick of Time
β Scribed by King, Francis
- Book ID
- 109103220
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 189 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781447258155
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
'A book dealing with modern problems and rightly longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. King is a writer's writer, his voice utterly convincing' Beryl Bainbridge, Books of the Year, Daily Telegraph
Francis King's provocative and adventurous novel looks at the havoc wrought when a young Kosovan β an illegal immigrant β finds himself in London. Mehmet leads a double life befriending and lodging with an elderly woman who suffers from MS, while at the same time having an affair with a female doctor and throwing himself onto the London gay scene. Disaster looms when he begins a relationship with a gay protector β and is arrested because of his illegal status.
'Very much of here and now . . . entirely persuasive' Penelope Lively, The Spectator
'I loved The Nick of Time, very enjoyable and subversive, with a highly engaging hero whose bad behaviour made compulsive reading β his exploits were most entertaining' Margaret Drabble
'King's...
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