H. R. F. Keating

A Long Walk to Wimbledon (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"[B]eautiful little classics...presented in such a way as to engage and amuse us; that is Keating's skill." Alexander McCall Smith For London the worst has happened. There have been riots, huge uncontrolled fires, outbreaks of savage looting, artillery battles and mass fights. The great city lies three parts deserted, open to marauding gangs and beast-wild individuals, its highways and landmarks tumbled like ruined temples. To Mark, comparatively safe in less troubled Highgate, there comes a message that his estranged wife, Jasmine, is dying in Wimbledon, on the far side of the dangerous bowl of the devastated city. Reluctant almost to sticking-point, he sets out to go to her. His journey is a story of adventure through the ruins. Will he reach Jasmine in time? Will he be torn to pieces on the way by the packs of wild dogs, or become trapped in one of the communes that have established their own ruthlessly puritanical disciplines? The difficulties and the dangers teach him lessons as he struggles onwards. If it was drink, drugs and the dolce vita that had done for his wife, had not something similar destroyed the city too? Mark finds himself on a quest as he searches for ways to make a better future.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 191
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781448202300
• Artikelnr.: 38312684

Autorenporträt

H. R. F. Keating was born at St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, in 1926. He went to Merchant Taylors, leaving early to work in the engineering department of the BBC. After a period of service in the army, which he described as 'totally undistinguished', he went to Trinity College, Dublin, where he became a scholar in modern languages. He was also the crime books reviewer for The Times for fifteen years. His first novel about Inspector Ghote, The Perfect Murder, won the Gold Dagger of the Crime Writers Association and an Edgar Allen Poe Special Award.

H. R. F. Keating was born at St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, in 1926. He went to Merchant Taylors, leaving early to work in the engineering department of the BBC. After a period of service in the army, which he described as 'totally undistinguished', he went to Trinity College, Dublin, where he became a scholar in modern languages. He was also the crime books reviewer for The Times for fifteen years. His first novel about Inspector Ghote, The Perfect Murder, won the Gold Dagger of the Crime Writers Association and an Edgar Allen Poe Special Award.