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Shear

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099572596

  • Length: 224  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 161g

  • RRP: £9.99

Shear

An English geologist working on a Mediterranean island becomes embroiled in a nightmare web of deceit, corruption, lust and tragedy in Tim Parks' mesmeric story of a man whose life will be shattered like the fatal fragment of stone that obsesses him.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099572596

  • Length: 224  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 161g

  • RRP: £9.99

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About the Author

Tim Parks

Born in Manchester, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. In 1981 he moved to Italy where he has lived ever since. He is the author of novels, non-fiction and essays, including Europa, Cleaver, A Season with Verona and Teach Us to Sit Still. He has won the Somerset Maugham, Betty Trask and Llewellyn Rhys awards, and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lectures on literary translation in Milan, writes for publications such as the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, and his many translations from the Italian include works by Moravia, Calvino, Calasso, Tabucchi and Machiavelli.

Tim Parks

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