Book description
>No one who reads this book will forget the frozen corpse tied to a
chair in an icehouse guarded by two drunken seamen, or the raging storm
which batters their, ship as they carry the body to Shetland.
That's just the beginning. As the tale takes grip, the reader becomes
haunted, just as the characters are haunted by a sense of guilt and betrayal.
One of the finest of Linklater's later, deeper, darker novels, The
Dark of Summer
combines national and family histories as it sets out to understand the
past, redeem the corrosion of memory and find meaning in a world of
divided loyalties.> >No one who reads this book will forget the
frozen corpse tied to a chair in an icehouse guarded by two drunken
seamen, or the raging storm which batters their, ship as they carry the
body to Shetland.
That's just the beginning. As the tale takes grip, the reader becomes
haunted, just as the characters are haunted by a sense of guilt and betrayal.
One of the finest of Linklater's later, deeper, darker novels, The
Dark of Summer
combines national and family histories as it sets out to understand the
past, redeem the corrosion of memory and find meaning in a world of
divided loyalties.>
