Description
| Product ID: | 9781035036585 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Picador Collection |
| Title: | Telephone |
| Authors: | Author: Percival Everett |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), California, New Mexico, Arizona, 21st century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating An arresting story of parental love, loss and grief from one of America's finest writers. <p><b>'[Percival Everett's] books always feel like an encounter with substantive, playful thinking . . . sad, affecting and marvelous' <i>New York Times</i><br><br>A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, <i>T</i><i>elephone</i> is an astonishing story of love, loss and grief from Percival Everett, author of <i>The Trees, Dr No </i>and <i>Erasure </i>(now an Oscar-nominated film).</b><br><br>Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in an incredibly niche field, he spends his days playing chess with his daughter, trading puns with his wife as she does yoga, and dodging committee work at the college where he teaches.<br><br>After his daughter is diagnosed with a fatal illness, Wells finds a cryptic plea for help tucked into a secondhand jacket bought online. Desperately seeking a way avoid his newfound sense of powerlessness, he embarks for New Mexico on a quixotic rescue mission.<br><br><b>Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.</b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-03-21 |