CANNING, VICTORTHE MASK OF MEMORY
William Morrow, New York, 1975
ISBN 0-688-02889-6
beletria, román
260 s., angličtina
hmotnosť: 505 g
tvrdá väzba s prebalom
stav: zachovalá
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This is the absorbing story of Margaret Tucker, the neglected wife of a high-ranking government security chief, and her strange liaison with an earthy, ambitious lover, Maximilian Dougall. Played out against a background of power politics and the struggles of labor unions against the state, their love affair—their personal, human predicament—contrasts sharply with the colorless anonymity of government bureaucracy. And the climax poses a question to which every reader must give his own answer: how far, even to the point of murder, is an individual responsible for his own acts?
His well-proved narrative skills intact, his control of character and tension as firm as ever, Victor Canning here brings a new dimension to his particular genre.
The setting is the coast of Devonshire, luminously described.
