Damon Galgut stepped prominently onto the international stage with the publication of "The Good Doctor." He has been compared to J.M. Coetzee, Graham Greene, and Joseph Conrad, but his voice is truly his own. "The Quarry, " written ten years ago but never before published outside South Africa, is a stark, intense, and crystalline novel in which human nature is set against the desolate backdrop of rural South Africa. On a lonely stretch of road a man picks up a hitchhiker. The driver is a minister on his way to a new ...
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Damon Galgut stepped prominently onto the international stage with the publication of "The Good Doctor." He has been compared to J.M. Coetzee, Graham Greene, and Joseph Conrad, but his voice is truly his own. "The Quarry, " written ten years ago but never before published outside South Africa, is a stark, intense, and crystalline novel in which human nature is set against the desolate backdrop of rural South Africa. On a lonely stretch of road a man picks up a hitchhiker. The driver is a minister on his way to a new congregation in an isolated village and the passenger is a nameless fugitive from justice. When the minister realizes this, and confronts his passenger as they are overlooking an empty quarry, the fugitive kills him and assumes his vestments and identity, only todiscover that one of his first duties as the new minister is to bury the body of his victim. Despite hints that two local petty criminals may be responsible, the local police chief is watching the new minister, and as the two play a tense game of cat and mouse, culminating in a desperate pursuit across the veldt, Damon Galgut gives us a spare, devastating combat for man's most prized attribute: freedom.
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Add this copy of The Quarry to cart. $16.99, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by McClelland & Stewart.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8x5x0; First British edition ("revised, " per the copyright page), 202pp. Very good hardcover. Binding tight and sturdy, text very good+. Black boards with copper-gilt titling are clean and bright. DJ unclipped with minimal wear; now protected in Mylar wraps. NOT ex-lib. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Add this copy of The Quarry to cart. $43.00, very good condition, Sold by Hourglass Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Vancouver, BC, CANADA, published 2005 by McClelland & Stewart.
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Very Good in Very Good, Not Price Clipped jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) First edition, first printing as evidenced by a complete number line from 1 to 5; signed by Damon Galgut on the title page with no inscription at the Vancouver International Writers Festival; some edge wear to boards and dust jacket; otherwise a solid, clean copy in collectible condition; dust jacket is protected by a Brodart sleeve.
Add this copy of The Quarry to cart. $47.87, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by McClelland & Stewart.
Add this copy of The Quarry to cart. $53.00, like new condition, Sold by A Good Read rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Toronto, ON, CANADA, published 2005 by McClelland & Stewart.
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As New in As New dust jacket. 0771032714. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY-customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery.; 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Signed by Author.
