Throw Me to the Wolves

by McGuinness, Patrick
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ISBN: 9781620401514
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"Compulsively readable."--New York Times Book Review

"A significant literary achievement that also happens to be a terrific page-turner."- Jonathan Lee

"Elegantly written, darkly entertaining."- John Banville

"An extraordinary writer of great compassion . . . Stunning."- Denise Mina

In the aftermath of Brexit, the body of a young woman is found by the river Thames, and a neighbor, a retired teacher from Chapleton College, is arrested. An eccentric loner--intellectual, shy, a fastidious dresser with expensive tastes--he is the perfect candidate for a media monstering.

In custody he is interviewed by two detectives: the circumspect Ander, and his workaday foil, Gary. Ander is particularly watchful now, because the man across the table is someone he knows--someone he hasn't seen in nearly thirty years. Determined to salvage the truth as ex-pupils and colleagues line up against the accused, he must face a story from decades back, from his own time as a Chapleton student, at the peak of anti-Irish sentiment.

With the momentum of classic crime fiction, Throw Me to the Wolves follows two mysteries--one unfolding in the media-saturated present, and the other bubbling up from the abusive past of the 1980s English school system. Beautifully written and psychologically acute, it is a novel about memory and childhood, prescient and piercingly funny, as wise as it is tragic.

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: McGuinness, Patrick
  • ISBN: 9781620401514
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.20 x 1.20
  • Number Of Pages: 336
  • Publication Year: 2019

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