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Headlong

Headlong

by Michael Frayn (Author), Michael Frayn (Author)

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    Paperback 1999

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    Paperback 2005

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    Hardcover 1999

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    Paperback 2000

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Synopsis

Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, sees a chance of a lifetime: to perform a great public service, and to make his professional reputation. To obtain the treasure he thinks he has identified involves him setting up a classic sting and risking everything that is valuable to him.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 394
 Edition: 1st Paperback Printing
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 23 Aug 1999
ISBN 10: 0571201423
ISBN 13: 9780571201471
Prizes: Shortlisted for British Science Fiction Association Award 2000 and James Tait Black Memorial Book Prizes: Fiction 2000 and Booker Prize for Fiction 1999 and Whitbread Book Awards: Novel Category 1999 and Whitbread Prize (Novel) 1999.

Author Bio
Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. His novels include Towards the End of the Morning, The Trick of It and A Landing on the Sun. Headlong was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize, Whitbread Novel Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. His thirteen plays range from Noises Off to Copenhagen, and he has translated a number of works, mostly from Russian. He is married to the biographer and critic Claire Tomalin.