Rough music / Patrick Gale.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Fourth Estate, 2009.Description: 374, 18 p. ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780007307678 (pbk.)
- 813 GAL
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Standard Loan | Moylish Library Fiction Collection | 813 GAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100514695 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A gripping and unnerving story of a family's secrets and lies, from the bestselling author of 'Notes from an Exhibition' and 'A Perfectly Good Man'. Julian as a small boy is taken on the perfect Cornish holiday. When glamorous American cousins unexpectedly swell the party, however, emotions run high and events spiral out of control. Though he has been brought up in the forbidding shadow of the prison his father runs, though his parents are neither as normal nor as happy as he supposes, Julian's world view is the sunnily selfish, accepting one of boyhood. It is only when he becomes a man - seemingly at ease with love, with his sexuality, with his ghosts - that the traumatic effects of that distant summer rise up to challenge his defiant assertion that he is happy and always has been.
Originally published: London: Flamingo, 2000.
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Patrick Gale was born in 1962 on the Isle of Wight. He is a British novelist He was educated at The Pilgrims' School, the choir school for both Winchester Cathedral and Winchester College, then at Winchester College itself and at New College, University of Oxford. Following university he had a range of jobs while he sang for the London Philharmonic Choir and wrote his first novel, The Aerodynamics of Pork while working as a waiter in an all-night restaurant. His works include: Ease, Kansas in August, Little Bits of Baby and A Place Called Winter.
(Bowker Author Biography)