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Prodigies
In a richly inventive novel King deploys all his formidable skills as a storyteller and brings to life both real life characters and the extraordinary diversity of imagined people met on their African odyssey.
Book Details
- Publisher: Arcadia Books
- Publish Date: Jun 8th, 2001
- Pages: 368
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.58in - 5.54in - 1.13in - 1.01lb
- EAN: 9781900850551
- Categories: • Historical - General
About the Author
Francis King is a former International President of PEN and drama critic of the Sunday Telegraph. His fiction includes Act of Darkness, Dead Letters, and The Custom House. Arcadia published Prodigies to great acclaim in 2001, while his 28th novel The Nick of Time was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2003, attracting critical praise from Harold Pinter, Antonia Fraser, Beryl Bainbridge, Penelope Lively, and Margaret Drabble.