- Fiction, Boys, Male friendship, World War, 1939-1945
"The sudden trace of a troubling, familiar smell takes Stephen Wheatley back to a dimly remembered yet disturbing childhood summer in wartime London. As he pieces together the scattered images, we are transported to a quiet street, where two boys - Keith and his sidekick Stephen - are engaged in their own version of the war effort: spying on the neighbors, recording their movements, ferreting out their secrets.".
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Grave, classical in form, intimate and earnest.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Michael Frayn
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber Ltd, Faber and Faber, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780571249206
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