by PhilWhitaker (Author)
In Triangulation, Phil Whitaker has created an almost perfect English novel - controlled, funny, seething with sexual tension. His stolidly anglo-saxon anti-hero John forms one angle of a three-sided love affair. At the other angles are Laurance, a shooting star, brilliant and glamorous, and Helen, a pretty young girl down from the country and ripe for adventure. Meeting in their first jobs at the newly civilianized Department of Overseas Survey, their lives intertwine. John and Laurance become friends, despite their obvious differences: Laurance's career takes him to Africa, John's into the dustier reaches of the Whitehall map library. When both fall in love with Helen, three lives collide. Phil Whitaker achieves many things in this fine novel, a faultless evocation of London in the late fifties, a love story that stays in the reader's mind long after the book is finished.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: paperback / softback
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 04 Nov 1999
ISBN 10: 075380770X
ISBN 13: 9780753807705
Book Overview: Phil Whitaker is the winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Prize 'Whitaker creates a dramatic contrast between the dull, unambitious, tidy-minded, slightly old-fashioned John Hopkins, and the chaotic, charismatic figure of Laurance, the man of action...A clever, beautifully judged piece of writing' Financial Times 'The writer marshals his story cleverly...Well-crafted and ultimately moving' Time Out 'An intelligent, sympathetic and eloquent writer' Sunday Telegraph
Prizes: Shortlisted for Encore Award 1999.
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