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Cameraman Richard Grey's memory has blanked out the few weeks before he was injured in a car bomb explosion. When he is visited by a girl who seems to have been his lover, his attempts to recall the forgotten period produce an odyssey through France and conflicting accounts of what happened. When Susan Kewley speaks to him of that time, he finds himself glimpsing a terrible twilight world - the world of the glamour.
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Grave, contemporary, earnest and open-ended.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Christopher Priest
- First published
- 1984
- Pages
- 326
- Publisher
- Distributed by Magna, Simon & Schuster (Trade Division), Doubleday
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- French, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780224022743
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