Spies A Novel

Name: Spies A Novel
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ISBN: 9780312421175

ISBN-10: 0312421176

ISBN-13: 9780312421175

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Authors: Michael Frayn

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The National Bestseller The sudden trace of a disturbing, forgotten aroma compels Stephen Wheatley to return to the site of a dimly remembered but troubling childhood summer in wartime London. As he pieces together his scattered memories, we are brought back to a quiet, suburban street where two boys--Keith and his sidekick, Stephen--are engaged in their own version of the war effort: spying on the neighbors, recording their movements, and ferreting out their secrets. But when Keith utters six shocking words, the boy’s game of espionage takes a sinister and unintended turn, transforming a wife’s simple errands and the ordinary rituals of family life into the elements of adult catastrophe. …

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 1/18/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Michael Frayn is the author of the award-winning "Copenhagen" & twelve other plays, including "Noises Off". The most recent of his nine novels is "Headlong", a New York Times Editor's Choice & Booker Prize finalist. He lives in London.