In the early years of the Second World War an army officer is sent to the Faroe Islands to investigate rumours of a collaboration with the Nazi regime in Norway. What he finds changes lives, not least his own. 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 ...
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In the early years of the Second World War an army officer is sent to the Faroe Islands to investigate rumours of a collaboration with the Nazi regime in Norway. What he finds changes lives, not least his own. 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.
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Add this copy of The Dark of Summer to cart. $4.97, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Canongate Books.
Add this copy of The Dark of Summer to cart. $5.44, good condition, Sold by Robert Harper Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hyattsville, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1956 by Michael Joseph.
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Good in NONE jacket. No DJ. Cloth Boards are green with silver on spine. Heavily worn on all corners and edges with much fraying. Writing on first blank page where there is also previous lifting of end paper from adhesive (? ). Spine is not tight but intact. Two stains on top edge. Light foxing on end papers only. Text is clean.
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Good. Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1957, 1st American Edition, tight square hardcover in a edge worn dust jacket, no owner's mark, tears and chips on unclipped dust jacket, light wear to book.
Add this copy of The Dark of Summer to cart. $13.94, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2012 by Bloomsbury Reader.
Add this copy of The Dark of Summer to cart. $16.21, very good condition, Sold by dromanabooks rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from newstead, VIC, AUSTRALIA, published 1958 by Readers Book Club.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Darkened endpapers. Unclipped jacket, slight chipping spine ends of jacket. Fiction set in Shetland Islands. 300gms weight; Book Club Edition; 12mo 7"-7½" tall; 258 pages.
Add this copy of The Dark of Summer to cart. $17.50, good condition, Sold by Marlowes Books rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ferny Hills, Brisbane, QLD, AUSTRALIA, published by Readers Book Club.
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Good in Good jacket. 254 pagest. Book and Jacket are both in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy. Set In The Shetland Islands, where There Is No Darkness At Midnight, Only Twilight.
