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The nick of time / Francis King.
Van Pelt Library PR6061.I45 N52 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- King, Francis, 1923-2011.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Noncitizens--Great Britain--Fiction.
- Noncitizens.
- Illegal immigration--Great Britain--Fiction.
- Illegal immigration.
- Gay men.
- Egyptians.
- Great Britain.
- England--London.
- Egyptians--England--London--Fiction.
- Gay men--England--London--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 308 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Arcadia ; St Paul, MN : Distributed in the USA by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, 2003.
- Summary:
- Francis King's entertaining new novel looks at the havoc wrought when a young Egyptian -- an illegal -immigrant -- finds himself in London. Ahmad leads a double life, befriending and lodging with an elderly woman who suffers from MS; while at the same time throwing himself onto the London gay scene. Jealousy looms when he begins a relationship with a gay protector -- and is arrested because of his illegal status.
- Francis King is a prize-winning British novelist, now 80 and the author of more than 40 popular novels, biographies and travel books. He is a former president of International PEN, and has been published in the U.S. by Penguin Books, among others.
- ISBN:
- 1900850788
- OCLC:
- 51270662
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