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'For me life hasn't got dreams, success and all that damn nonsense. Life is full of shadows- some of them soft and others conceal a hammer.' Galton Flood is a lonely man, restless and ill at ease with his family. He leaves his home in Guyana's capital, Georgetown, for a remote township, and the first of a string of precarious jobs. Meeting Gemma, his landlord's daughter, appears to offer a first chance of meaningful connection - maybe even happiness. But there is a darkness inside Galton, and soon jealousy and paranoia lead him to fatally, violently unravel. With this haunting portrait of a mind undone, celebrated Guyanese writer Roy Heath evocatively recreates the country of his youth- its rivers, townships and tenement yards, and the tensions shimmering below the surface of a community.
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The Murderer, Roy Heath
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- Released
- 2022
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- Title
- The Murderer
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Roy Heath
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Released
- 2022
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 192
- ISBN10
- 0241552729
- ISBN13
- 9780241552728
- Series
- Rating
- 3.45 out of 5
- Description
- 'For me life hasn't got dreams, success and all that damn nonsense. Life is full of shadows- some of them soft and others conceal a hammer.' Galton Flood is a lonely man, restless and ill at ease with his family. He leaves his home in Guyana's capital, Georgetown, for a remote township, and the first of a string of precarious jobs. Meeting Gemma, his landlord's daughter, appears to offer a first chance of meaningful connection - maybe even happiness. But there is a darkness inside Galton, and soon jealousy and paranoia lead him to fatally, violently unravel. With this haunting portrait of a mind undone, celebrated Guyanese writer Roy Heath evocatively recreates the country of his youth- its rivers, townships and tenement yards, and the tensions shimmering below the surface of a community.