The Flood
Published on 21. September 2005
Audio
Audio cassette
978-0-7528-7318-3 (ISBN)
Description
Mary Miller is an outcast, believed by some to have occult powers, and is the mother of a bastard son, Sandy. Mary finds herself caught up in a faltering affair with a local schoolteacher while Sandy falls in love with a strange gypsy girl. As the action moves towards a tense and unexpected climax, both mother and son are forced to come to terms with the past, in the growing knowledge that their small dramas are being played out against a much larger canvas, a drama glimpsed only in symbols and flickering images - of decay and regrowth, of fire and water - of the flood.
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Edition
Abridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Edition type
Abridged edition
Dimensions
Height: 139 mm
Width: 105 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Duration
Dauer: 360 min
Weight
231 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7528-7318-3 (9780752873183)
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Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982, and then spent three years writing novels when he was supposed to be working towards a PhD in Scottish Literature. His first Rebus novel was published in 1987, and the Rebus books are now translated into twenty-two languages and are bestsellers on several continents. Fife born Donald was most recently seen on television in the BBC Scotland series RIVER CITY playing Callum and in SPOOKS -BBC TV as PC Steven Bowyers. Theatre includes ANTIGONE at the Old Vic, MYTHS OF THE NEAR FUTURE at the Tramway, Glasgow, MACBETH at the StephenJoseph Theatre and Everyman, Liverpool and THE CURE AT TROY at Battersea Arts Centre, ROMEO & JULIET, TWELFTH NIGHT at Shakespeare in the Botanics, Glasgow.