The Rescue Man
The Rescue Man
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Published:
4 February, 2010
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Description
Liverpool, 1939. Lonely historian Tom Baines is at work on a study of the city's architectural past but the ominous news from Europe, together with his burgeoning friendship with Richard, a young photographer, and his beautiful wife, Bella, are proving a distraction.
When the bombings begin, Tom joins up as 'rescue man', retrieving the wounded and dying from the ruins of buildings, but the love affair he embarks on soon leads him into a very different kind of danger.
Prizes
Winner of Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2010,Short-listed for Desmond Elliott Prize 2009
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780099531937 |
| ISBN10 | 0099531933 |
| Number Of Pages | 416 |
| Item Weight | 287 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 198 x 25 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
Thoughtful, beautifully observed and utterly compelling * Independent on Sunday *
A fascinating novel - very moving and beautifully nuanced and observed - it beguiles with a tremendous slow-burning power -- William Boyd
Brilliant...an involving meditation on passion, history and architecture * Daily Mail *
A love letter to Liverpool...ambitiously conceived... He has perfect pitch when it comes to the prose of each period, so much so that when I started the novel, I had the uncanny sense that what I was reading must have been salvaged from the 1940s. Its every line convinces -- Kate Kellaway * Observer *
The story has the resonant simplicity of a poem... The Rescue Man turns the ongoing frenzy of construction and destruction into a quietly powerful metaphor of how we grow up * Guardian *
An excellent debut...a moving and powerfully told story of late coming-of-age and redemptive love * Literary Review *
Tells the slowly unfolding story of Baines' journey of self-discovery with great subtlety * Sunday Times *
Quinn has a cinematic eye for narrative scope... Like all good novels this book tells us something new * Spectator *
An absorbing tribute to the city and its unsung heroes -- Holly Kyte * Sunday Telegraph *
In a novel of cinematic denouements, Quinn has reclaimed an intriguing chapter of Liverpool's past -- Emma Hagestadt * Independent *
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Author's Bio
Anthony Quinn was born in Liverpool in 1964. From 1998 to 2013 he was the film critic for the Independent. He is the author of six novels: The Rescue Man, which won the 2009 Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award; Half of the Human Race; The Streets, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Walter Scott Prize; Curtain Call, which was chosen for Waterstones and Mail on Sunday Book Clubs; Freya, a Radio 2 Book Club choice, and Eureka.