Shuttlecock (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Graham Swift
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Mystery
- Time of Work: c. 1981
- Setting: London
- Principal Characters: Prentis, Quinn, Marian, Martin, Peter, Prentis, Sr. (“Dad”)
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Parents and children, Crime or criminals, Police, 1980’s, England or English people, Fathers, Blackmail, Truth, Detectives, London
- Locales: London, England
The Novel
Shuttlecock is the odd, tense narrative of a man known only as Prentis, a senior clerk in an obscure government agency which collects and preserves information pertaining to closed cases and unsolved crimes. Prentis, the son of a British war hero, lives in the shadow of a past commemorated in his father’s memoirs about the war, Shuttlecock: The Story of a Secret Agent. Over his family’s objections, Prentis goes every Sunday to visit his father in the mental institution where Prentis, Sr., resides as a catatonic after a mysterious breakdown. Since...
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