Cold Snap
by Francis King
Product description From master storyteller and psychologist, Francis King (1923-2011), comes this powerful drama of continuing antagonisms, nascent reconciliations, and obsessive love. Set in post-World War II Oxford, cousins Michael and Christine befriend a group of German prisoners camped on the outskirts of town. King's descriptions of the grimness of the lives of Germans, laboring outdoors in the bitter cold, and of the conflict between the natural humanity of the British and their desire for reparations, are etched with memorable sharpness. About the Author Francis King is a former International President of PEN and drama critic of the Sunday Telegraph. His fiction includes Act of Darkness, Dead Letters, and The Custom House. Arcadia published Prodigies to great acclaim in 2001, while his 28th novel The Nick of Time was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2003, attracting critical praise from Harold Pinter, Antonia Fraser, Beryl Bainbridge, Penelope Lively, and Margaret Drabble.
WORLD WAR, 1939-1945_FICTIONGREAT BRITAIN_FICTIONFICTION_PSYCHOLOGICALFICTION_HISTORICAL_GENERAL
RELEASED2013
PUBLISHERArcadia Books Ltd
LENGTH280
LANGUAGEEN
George Francis King known as Francis X. King, was a British occult writer and editor from London who wrote about tarot, divination, witchcraft, magic, sex magic, tantra, and holistic medicine. He was a member of the Society of the Inner Light, an offshoot of the Alpha et Omega, which in turn was an offshoot of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. ---From Wiki
Cold Snap
by Francis King
Product description From master storyteller and psychologist, Francis King (1923-2011), comes this powerful drama of continuing antagonisms, nascent reconciliations, and obsessive love. Set in post-World War II Oxford, cousins Michael and Christine befriend a group of German prisoners camped on the outskirts of town. King's descriptions of the grimness of the lives of Germans, laboring outdoors in the bitter cold, and of the conflict between the natural humanity of the British and their desire for reparations, are etched with memorable sharpness. About the Author Francis King is a former International President of PEN and drama critic of the Sunday Telegraph. His fiction includes Act of Darkness, Dead Letters, and The Custom House. Arcadia published Prodigies to great acclaim in 2001, while his 28th novel The Nick of Time was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2003, attracting critical praise from Harold Pinter, Antonia Fraser, Beryl Bainbridge, Penelope Lively, and Margaret Drabble.
WORLD WAR, 1939-1945_FICTIONGREAT BRITAIN_FICTIONFICTION_PSYCHOLOGICALFICTION_HISTORICAL_GENERAL
RELEASED2013
PUBLISHERArcadia Books Ltd
LENGTH280
LANGUAGEEN
George Francis King known as Francis X. King, was a British occult writer and editor from London who wrote about tarot, divination, witchcraft, magic, sex magic, tantra, and holistic medicine. He was a member of the Society of the Inner Light, an offshoot of the Alpha et Omega, which in turn was an offshoot of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. ---From Wiki
