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1981 (UK), 1985 (US) Media type. Print & audio. Pages. 224. ISBN. 0-7139-1413-0. Shuttlecock, described as a psychological thriller, was Graham Swift 's second novel, [1] published in 1981 by Allen Lane. It won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1983 and was released as a film in 1993.
1 de ene. de 1981 · An oddity of a novel: a bullying father and husband fixated unhealthily on his employer, the mysterious Quinn, and his war hero father, is given the opportunity to discover whether that father was actually as heroic as he claimed or rather a traitor and liar.
Critical Essays. Summary. PDF Cite Share. 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...
About Shuttlecock. Prentis, the narrator of this nightmarish novel, catalogs "dead crimes" for a branch of the London Police Department and suspects that he is going crazy. His files keep vanishing. His boss subjects him to cryptic taunts. His family despises him.
3 de mar. de 1992 · The protagonist of Graham Swift’s ‘Shuttlecock’ is a middle-aged man named Prentis who is employed in the archives department of the police. He is diligent with his work on the secret cases to which he is assigned, but suffers from what he feels is the overly intense scrutiny of his boss, Quinn, whose behaviour he finds both ...
Shuttlecock. Graham Swift. Pan Macmillan, Jan 26, 2012 - Fiction - 256 pages. ‘Serious, moving and often very funny indeed’ Observer. Prentis, senior clerk in the ‘dead crimes’ department of...
13 de nov. de 2008 · 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. As his father is in a "language-coma," brought about by some sort of nervous breakdown, the only key to his personality lies in his autobiography entitled " Shuttlecock : The Story of a Secret Agent."
