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Grasshopper
By Barbara Vine
7 - Used - good
Description
'They have sent me here because of what happened on the pylon'
When Clodagh Brown writes these words at the age of nineteen she believes that she is leaving behind the traumatic events of her youth. But Clodagh soon learns that you can never entirely escape your past.
In the aftermath of the incident on the pylon - a gargantuan electrified grasshopper - Clodagh goes off to university moves into a basement flat arranged by her unsympathetic family and finds freedom trekking across London's rooftops with a gang of neighborhood misfits. As she begins a thrilling relationship with a fellow climber however both Clodagh and the reader are haunted by the memory of the pylon and of the terrible thing that happened there - and by the eerie sense that another tragedy is just a footfall away.
Grasshopper is a modern crime masterpiece that will have you gripped from the first page to the last. If you enjoy the novels of P.D. James Ian Rankin and Scott Turow you will love this book.
'The Rendell/ Vine partnership has for years been producing consistently better work than most Booker winners put together' Ian Rankin
'A superb and original writer' Amanda Craig Express
Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. She has written fifteen novels using this pseudonym including A Fatal Inversion and King Solomon's Carpet which both won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. Her other books include: A Dark Adapted Eye; The House of Stairs; Gallowglass; Asta's Book; No Night Is Too Long; In the Time of His Prosperity; The Brimstone Wedding; The Chimney Sweeper's Boy; Grasshopper; The Blood Doctor; The Minotaur; The Birthday Present and The Child's Child.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
544
Release Date:
2001-05-03
Publication Date:
2001-05-03
Publisher:
Penguin
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0140293027
ISBN13:
9780140293029
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
504 g
Height:
111 cm
Width:
181 cm
Thickness:
32 cm
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Good
The items bear minimal signs of past use, such as light scratches or memories in the form of markings. These signs of wear give the items a charming character and tell stories of their previous owners, while not affecting their functionality.
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