Skios
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Skios

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eBook - ePub

Skios

About this book

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize

'Good God, thought Oliver, as he saw the smile. She thinks I'm him! And all at once he knew it was so. He was Dr Norman Wilfred.'

On the sunlit Greek island of Skios, the Fred Toppler Foundation's annual lecture is to be given by Dr Norman Wilfred, the world-famous authority on the scientific organisation of science. He turns out to be surprisingly young and charming - not at all the intimidating figure they had been expecting. The Foundation's guests are soon eating out of his hand. So, even sooner, is Nikki, the attractive and efficient organiser.

Meanwhile, in a remote villa at the other end of the island, Nikki's old school-friend Georgie waits for the notorious chancer she has rashly agreed to go on holiday with, and who has only too characteristically failed to turn up. Trapped in the villa with her, by an unfortunate chain of misadventure, is a balding old gent called Dr Norman Wilfred, who has lost his whereabouts, his luggage, his temper and increasingly all normal sense of reality - everything he possesses apart from the flyblown text of a well-travelled lecture on the scientific organisation of science...

And as the time draws ever nearer for one or other Dr Wilfred - or possibly both - to give the eagerly awaited lecture, so Skios - Greece - Europe - career off their appointed track.

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Skios is a story of mislaid identity, misdirected passion and miscalculated consequences. Michael Frayn is also the celebrated author of fifteen plays including Noises Off, Copenhagen and Afterlife. His other bestselling novels include Headlong, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and Spies, which won the Whitbread Best Novel Award.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9780571281435
Subtopic
Travel

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Chapter: 1
  5. Chapter: 2
  6. Chapter: 3
  7. Chapter: 4
  8. Chapter: 5
  9. Chapter: 6
  10. Chapter: 7
  11. Chapter: 8
  12. Chapter: 9
  13. Chapter: 10
  14. Chapter: 11
  15. Chapter: 12
  16. Chapter: 13
  17. Chapter: 14
  18. Chapter: 15
  19. Chapter: 16
  20. Chapter: 17
  21. Chapter: 18
  22. Chapter: 19
  23. Chapter: 20
  24. Chapter: 21
  25. Chapter: 22
  26. Chapter: 23
  27. Chapter: 24
  28. Chapter: 25
  29. Chapter: 26
  30. Chapter: 27
  31. Chapter: 28
  32. Chapter: 29
  33. Chapter: 30
  34. Chapter: 31
  35. Chapter: 32
  36. Chapter: 33
  37. Chapter: 34
  38. Chapter: 35
  39. Chapter: 36
  40. Chapter: 37
  41. Chapter: 38
  42. Chapter: 39
  43. Chapter: 40
  44. Chapter: 41
  45. Chapter: 42
  46. Chapter: 43
  47. Chapter: 44
  48. Chapter: 45
  49. Chapter: 46
  50. Chapter: 47
  51. Chapter: 48
  52. Chapter: 49
  53. Chapter: 50
  54. Chapter: 51
  55. About the Author
  56. By the Same Author
  57. Copyright

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