Booker Prize Best Novel (nominee)
Publisher's Weekly
In this ''exotic'' treatment of English eccentricity at its manic extreme, the reticent narrator, Gabriel Harvey, tells of his agonized efforts to come to terms with the loss of his mother, and of his appalling father. PW lauded Bailey's shining dialogue and his ''word-perfect'' character sketches.
Genre: General Fiction
In this ''exotic'' treatment of English eccentricity at its manic extreme, the reticent narrator, Gabriel Harvey, tells of his agonized efforts to come to terms with the loss of his mother, and of his appalling father. PW lauded Bailey's shining dialogue and his ''word-perfect'' character sketches.
Genre: General Fiction
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