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Something to Answer For

P.H. Newby
3.05/5 (711 ratings)
P. H. Newby's seventeenth novel Something To Answer For was assured of a place in literary history when it won the inaugural Booker Prize in 1969.

It was 1956 and Townrow was in Port Said - of these two facts he is reasonably certain. He had been summoned by the widow of his deceased friend Elie Khoury. She is convinced Elie was murdered, but nobody seems to agree with her. What of Leah Strauss, the mistress? And of the invading British paratroops? Only an Englishman, surely, would take for granted that the British would have behaved themselves. In this disorientating world Townrow must reassess the rules by which he has been living his life - to wonder whether he, too, may have something to answer for?
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
284 pages
Publication:
2008
Publisher:
Faber and Faber
Edition:
1st Edition, First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0571243258
ISBN13:
9780571243259
kindle Asin:
B07B8VZN3S

Something to Answer For

P.H. Newby
3.05/5 (711 ratings)
P. H. Newby's seventeenth novel Something To Answer For was assured of a place in literary history when it won the inaugural Booker Prize in 1969.

It was 1956 and Townrow was in Port Said - of these two facts he is reasonably certain. He had been summoned by the widow of his deceased friend Elie Khoury. She is convinced Elie was murdered, but nobody seems to agree with her. What of Leah Strauss, the mistress? And of the invading British paratroops? Only an Englishman, surely, would take for granted that the British would have behaved themselves. In this disorientating world Townrow must reassess the rules by which he has been living his life - to wonder whether he, too, may have something to answer for?
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
284 pages
Publication:
2008
Publisher:
Faber and Faber
Edition:
1st Edition, First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0571243258
ISBN13:
9780571243259
kindle Asin:
B07B8VZN3S