Headlong
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Description: A tale of historical investigation and comic invention. Invited to assess some old paintings, an easily-distracted philosopher is convinced that one of them is a lost work by Breughel. He risks everything he has in the effort to establish its provenance and trick it from its owner's possession.
Prizes: Short-listed for British Science Fiction Association Award 2000 and James Tait Black Memorial Book Prize: Fiction 2000 and Booker Prize for Fiction 1999 and Whitbread Book Awards: Novel Category 1999 and Whitbread Prize (Novel) 1999.
Author: Michael Frayn
Format: Hardback, 400 pages, 145mm x 223mm, 553 g
Published: 1999, Faber & Faber, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
Description: A tale of historical investigation and comic invention. Invited to assess some old paintings, an easily-distracted philosopher is convinced that one of them is a lost work by Breughel. He risks everything he has in the effort to establish its provenance and trick it from its owner's possession.
Prizes: Short-listed for British Science Fiction Association Award 2000 and James Tait Black Memorial Book Prize: Fiction 2000 and Booker Prize for Fiction 1999 and Whitbread Book Awards: Novel Category 1999 and Whitbread Prize (Novel) 1999.