Imprint: Vintage
Published: 30/01/1995
ISBN: 9780749396800
Length: 240 Pages
Dimensions: 199mm x 16mm x 130mm
Weight: 170g
RRP: £7.99
Bored and broke, Morris Duckworth, an English teacher in Verona, stumbles on a plan for financial salvation - to marry Massimina, a seventeen-year-old student. And if his intentions are frustrated by a suspicious, conservative family, is it any fault of his that the lovely girl chooses to elope? Obsessed by self-advancement and excitement, Morris' dreams of blackmail, theft and murder plunge him deep into a chilling nightmare of deception and violence.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 30/01/1995
ISBN: 9780749396800
Length: 240 Pages
Dimensions: 199mm x 16mm x 130mm
Weight: 170g
RRP: £7.99
"A triumph"
"Sharp and witty, expertly paced, frequently horrific and often very funny"
"An unusually classy thriller, true to life and not to be missed"
"Entertaining black humour"
"Tim Parks presents the real, virginal, boastful, cracked Morris lurking behind his own justifications as matters turn lethal and ugly. Clever, blandly humorous and utterly immoral."