Autor:
Verlag:
Viking
Jahr:
2010
Seitenzahl:
339
ISBN:
9780670918799
Medium:
Taschenbuch
Sprache:
Englisch
Zustandsbeschreibung
Ecken und Rand oben etwas abgestoßen, ansonsten sehr gut erhalten.
Artikelbeschreibung
Maxwell Slim seems to have hit rock bottom. Recently returned from an unsuccessful visit to his estranged father in Australia, and newly separated from his wife and daughter, he realizes that while he may have 74 friends on Facebook, there is nobody in the world with whom he can actually share his problems.
Then a business proposition from an old friend, trevor, comes his way- a strange exercise in corporate publicity that will require him to spend a week driving from London to a remote retail outlet in the Shetland Islands. But, as he drives north, the journey takes a more serious turn, leading him not just to one of the furthest points in the UK, but to the dark secrets within his own family. On the verge of losing his bearings altogether, Maxwell starts to identify more and more obsessively with the tortured figure of Donald Crowhurst- the lone yachtsman whose 1969 attempt at a round-the-world voyage ended in tragedy.
Then a business proposition from an old friend, trevor, comes his way- a strange exercise in corporate publicity that will require him to spend a week driving from London to a remote retail outlet in the Shetland Islands. But, as he drives north, the journey takes a more serious turn, leading him not just to one of the furthest points in the UK, but to the dark secrets within his own family. On the verge of losing his bearings altogether, Maxwell starts to identify more and more obsessively with the tortured figure of Donald Crowhurst- the lone yachtsman whose 1969 attempt at a round-the-world voyage ended in tragedy.
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