The viaduct
A man, recently released from prison, is setting out on a journey, walking over the disused railway viaduct that spans his native city. He is not sure where he is going and, after years of captivity, his instinct is to take the route that opens in front of him. On the railway he meets other "tr...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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London u.a.
The Bodley Head
1983
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| Schriftenreihe: | Winner of The Triple First Award
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | A man, recently released from prison, is setting out on a journey, walking over the disused railway viaduct that spans his native city. He is not sure where he is going and, after years of captivity, his instinct is to take the route that opens in front of him. On the railway he meets other "travellers" like himself, who are fleeing society's constraints and judgements. From the opening sequence of The Viaduct the reader is aware that in a strange way the normal concepts of human existence have altered; the focus has shifted imperceptibly; the rules are no longer the same. It is the achievement of David Wheldon's arrestingly original first novel to have created, effortlessly and with deceptive simplicity, an alternative world; one, moreover, which becomes totally credible to the reader. Yet it is also a novel that each of us is allowed to interpret according to our own experience. |
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| Beschreibung: | 176 S. |
| ISBN: | 0370305191 0-370-30519-1 |