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About the Author:
Anthony Quinn was born in Liverpool in 1964. From 1998 to 2013 he was the film critic for the Independent. He is the author of six novels: The Rescue Man, which won the 2009 Authors' Club Best First Novel Award; Half of the Human Race; The Streets, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Walter Scott Prize; Curtain Call, which was chosen for Waterstones and Mail on Sunday Book Clubs; Freya, a Radio 2 Book Club choice, and Eureka.
Review:
"Thoughtful, beautifully observed and utterly compelling" * Independent on Sunday * "A fascinating novel - very moving and beautifully nuanced and observed - it beguiles with a tremendous slow-burning power" -- William Boyd "Brilliant...an involving meditation on passion, history and architecture" * Daily Mail * "A love letter to Liverpool...ambitiously conceived... He has perfect pitch when it comes to the prose of each period, so much so that when I started the novel, I had the uncanny sense that what I was reading must have been salvaged from the 1940s. Its every line convinces" -- Kate Kellaway * Observer * "The story has the resonant simplicity of a poem... The Rescue Man turns the ongoing frenzy of construction and destruction into a quietly powerful metaphor of how we grow up" * Guardian *
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- PublisherVintage Books USA
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0099531933
- ISBN 13 9780099531937
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages416
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