Damon Galgut

The Quarry

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A thrilling parable of death and deception from the Booker-shortlisted Galgut. On a lonely stretch of road a man picks up a hitchhiker. The driver is a minister on his way to a new rural congregation. The passenger, a fugitive. When the minister realizes this, the fugitive kills him. He assumes his vestments and identity, only to discover that one of his first duties as the new minister is to preside over his victim's funeral. As the fugitive and the local police chief play a tense game of cat and mouse, culminating in a pursuit across the desolate veldt, Damon Galgut gives us a spare, devastating combat for man's most prized attribute: freed… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8021-9968-3
EAN: 9780802199683
Produktnummer: 31915096
Verlag: Atlantic Monthly Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 176 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'206 KB

Über den Autor

Damon Galgut is a South African born in Pretoria in 1963. He wrote his first novel A Sinless Season when he was seventeen. His other books include Small Circle of Beings and The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs. His novel The Quarry was made into a film, which he himself co-scripted and which was released theatrically in 1998. He is also the author of the plays Echoes of Anger, Party for Mother, Alive and Kicking, and The Green's Keeper.