Runaway / Peter May.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Quercus, 2016Copyright date: ©2015Description: 327 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781623657895
- 162365789X
- 813
- PR6063.A884 R85 2016
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| BOOK | Meaford Public Library Fiction | Fiction | FIC May (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 11719 |
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Glasgow, 2015. Jack Mackay dares not look back on a life of failure and mediocrity. The heavy-hearted sixty-seven-year-old is still haunted by what might have been. His recollections of the terrible events that befell him and his friends some fifty years earlier, and how he did not act when it mattered most is a memory he has tried to escape his entire adult life. London, 2015. A man lies dead in a one-room flat. His killer looks on, remorseless. What started with five teenagers following a dream five decades before has been transformed over the intervening decades into a waking nightmare that might just consume them all.
Patron comment on 06/19/2016
Runaway, Peter May (2015) May does a fine job in this mature novel that is part bildungsroman, part mystery, and part social commentary. Starting off in Glasgow, the story is set in Britain and moves back and forth in the lives of the characters in the present and in the 1960’s. I think one of the great strengths of the book is how skillfully May balances the side-by-side progression of the tales from each time period. There is also considerable emotional depth to the novel -- humour, melancholy, tension, shock, love, enduring friendship – all there -- along with an insightful look into the nuances of how we perceive the world over the span of our lives. May is a novelist that really clicked with me, and I look forward to reading his acclaimed "Lewis Trilogy".