Isbn: 9780908812097 - the slipway (1 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. A very good clean copy of the soft cover reprint. Billing's novel follows Geoffrey Targett, a man caught between family legacy, personal decline, and the slow collapse of his father's once‑proud shipyard. As the last vessel of the line awaits destruction by the Navy and Air Force, Targett drifts through the Golden Age Hotel, numbing himself with gin while clinging to fantasies of Japanese investors rescuing the yard. The book explores the tension between illusion and reality as he tries to maintain a façade of normality while everything around him—and within him—unravels.…