The Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn
Lonely historian Tom Baines is at work on a study of the city's architectural past but the ominous news from Europe, together with his burgeoning friendship with Richard, a young photographer, and his beautiful wife, Bella, are proving a distraction.
Thoughtful, beautifully observed and utterly compelling * Independent on Sunday *
A fascinating novel - very moving and beautifully nuanced and observed - it beguiles with a tremendous slow-burning power -- William Boyd
Brilliant..an involving meditation on passion, history and architecture * Daily Mail *
A love letter to Liverpool...ambitiously conceived... He has perfect pitch when it comes to the prose of each period, so much so that when I started the novel, I had the uncanny sense that what I was reading must have been salvaged from the 1940s. Its every line convinces -- Kate Kellaway * Observer *
The story has the resonant simplicity of a poem... The Rescue Man turns the ongoing frenzy of construction and destruction into a quietly powerful metaphor of how we grow up * Guardian *
A fascinating novel - very moving and beautifully nuanced and observed - it beguiles with a tremendous slow-burning power -- William Boyd
Brilliant..an involving meditation on passion, history and architecture * Daily Mail *
A love letter to Liverpool...ambitiously conceived... He has perfect pitch when it comes to the prose of each period, so much so that when I started the novel, I had the uncanny sense that what I was reading must have been salvaged from the 1940s. Its every line convinces -- Kate Kellaway * Observer *
The story has the resonant simplicity of a poem... The Rescue Man turns the ongoing frenzy of construction and destruction into a quietly powerful metaphor of how we grow up * Guardian *
Anthony Quinn was born in Liverpool in 1964. From 1998 to 2013 he was the film critic for the Independent. He is the author of six novels: The Rescue Man, which won the 2009 Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award; Half of the Human Race; The Streets, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Walter Scott Prize; Curtain Call, which was chosen for Waterstones and Mail on Sunday Book Clubs; Freya, a Radio 2 Book Club choice, and Eureka.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099531937 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099531933 |
| Title | The Rescue Man |
| Author | Anthony Quinn |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2010-02-04 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Prizes | Winner of Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2010, Short-listed for Desmond Elliott Prize 2009 |
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