
The Murderer
Roy Heath(Author)
McNally Jackson Books (Publisher)
Published on 3. May 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-946022-29-5 (ISBN)
Description
Reprint. Originally published: London: Allison & Busby, 1978.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 134 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
378 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-946022-29-5 (9781946022295)
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Born in what was then British Guiana, Roy Heath (1926–2008) grew up in a working-class neighborhood of Georgetown and in the coastal village of Agricola. In 1950, he moved to London to pursue graduate studies in modern languages; for many years he worked as a schoolteacher of French and German. He published his first novel, A Man Come Home (1974), at the age of forty-eight; his second novel, The Murderer, received the Guardian Fiction Prize. He would publish eight more books, all of them set in Guyana, a country to which he often returned.