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I’ve come late to Graham Swift’s 1981 novel Shuttlecock. I’d bought it on paperback release when I was studying psychology with the Open University, as it was labelled ‘a psychological thriller’; but I never got round to reading it then.
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Shuttlecock is a 1993 French-British thriller film directed by Andrew Piddington and starring Alan Bates, ... Graham Leader acquired the rights to the film in the late 1980s after a meeting with Graham Swift, the writer of the novel, and paid $7,500 for the rights over two years. Tim Rose Price, the writer of several BBC dramas, ...
Summary. Shuttlecock is the odd, tense narrative of a man known only as Prentis, a senior clerk in an obscure government agency which collects and preserves information pertaining to closed cases ...
3 de mar. de 1992 · Graham Swift was born in 1949 in London, where he still lives and works. He is the author of six novels, including the acclaimed Waterland, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Guardian Fiction Award.His most recent novel, Last Orders, won the 1996 Booker Prize and was an international bestseller.Graham Swift's work has been translated into more than twenty languages.
Shuttlecock: The Story of a Secret Agent Barry J. Fishman '89 One of the most interesting aspects of Shuttlecock is the manner in which Swift weaves a story-within-a-story for the reader. The novel's central character Prentis seeks self-actualization by attempting to discover how his father was able to be so brave and strong while held captive by the Nazis in World War II.
The Characters. While Shuttlecock tells the story of a son’s recovery of his father’s “true past,” and while it is narrated in the son’s “voice,” Prentis is oddly impersonal about ...
