The Walkaway by Scott Phillips
Sidney’s stepfather, Gunther Fahnstiel, got lucky in The Ice Harvest. Lucky to the tune of $250,000 in untraceable notes. Ten years later he’s escaped from the Lake Vista nursing home; confused, frail and desperate for a haircut. Sidney has prospered since his days running the bar at the Sweet Cage; he’s now the owner, in fact, and strip clubs are big business. So a $12,000 reward is posted for Gunther’s safe return. The only problem is Gunther’s just run into the daughter of an old flame and memories of dark deeds from decades before begin to surface . . . `A wicked rogues’ gallery . . . Mr Phillips presents a cavalcade of wry sleaze. [He] is clearly at home in this world, and he has wicked fun conjuring it’ New York Times `Phillips is a stylish, laconic writer and The Walkaway, in pulling off his merging of two time scales, never falters for a moment. Terrific’ Observer `Bleak, funny and poignant. Phillips can do it all’ Literary Review
This is the combined prequel and sequel to Phillips' debut The Ice Harvest, but it won't matter if you haven't read itComplete in its own right, The Walkaway is a twisted, twisting piece of work that constantly flicks the reader backwards and forwards from the dark side of post-war America, where Gunther Fahnstiel was a younger man, to the modern day where his memory's shot and he's just escaped from a nursing home - as easily as flipping pancakes. The feeling of time and place is immaculate, almost as if different people have written each of the two interlocking noir stories of money, greed and living in the grey world between what's legal and what's not - and Gunther's on the lam, looking for money he's already spent...
Scott Phillips has been shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey Award and the Macallan Dagger for Fiction Award, for his debut novel, The Ice Harvest. The Ice Harvest has recently been made into a film starring John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton. Scott lives in Southern California with his wife and young daughter.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780330481441 |
| ISBN 10 | 0330481444 |
| Title | The Walkaway |
| Author | Scott Phillips |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2002-05-24 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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