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The reservoir tapes / Jon McGregor.
Van Pelt Library PR6113.C48 R48 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McGregor, Jon, 1976- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Missing persons--Fiction.
- Missing persons.
- Interviewing.
- England.
- Missing children--Fiction.
- Missing children.
- Families--Fiction.
- Families.
- Interviewing--Fiction.
- Villages--England--Fiction.
- Villages.
- England--Fiction.
- FICTION / Short Stories (single author).
- FICTION / Literary.
- FICTION / Small Town & Rural.
- Local Subjects:
- FICTION / Short Stories (single author).
- FICTION / Literary.
- FICTION / Small Town & Rural.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Short stories.
- Mystery fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 167 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Catapult, 2018.
- Summary:
- "A teenage girl has gone missing. The whole community has been called upon to join the search. And now an interviewer arrives, intent on capturing the community's unstable stories about life in the weeks and months before Becky Shaw vanished. Each villager has a memory to share or a secret to conceal, a connection to Becky that they are trying to make or break. A young wife pushes against the boundaries of her marriage, and another seeks a means of surviving within hers. A group of teenagers dare one another to jump into a flooded quarry, the weakest swimmer still awaiting his turn. A laborer lies trapped under rocks and dry limestone dust as his fellow workers attempt a risky rescue. And meanwhile a fractured portrait of Becky emerges at the edges of our vision-a girl swimming, climbing, and smearing dirt onto a scared boy's face, images to be cherished and challenged as the search for her goes on."-- Amazon.com.
- Notes:
- "First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by 4th Estate"--Title page verso.
- ISBN:
- 9781936787913
- 1936787911
- OCLC:
- 1023541815
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