The search
Smith, Iain Crichton, 1928-19981983
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Scottish professor Trevor Grierson is giving a series of guest-lectures in Canberra, Australia--when he gets a phone-call from one Malcolm Douglas, an ex-wastrel who has news of Grierson's long-estranged brother Norman: according to the murkily motivated Douglas, Norman is probably dead, last heard of in a Sydney jail after years of low-life behavior. Trevor, shaken, immediately sets off for Sydney, where he can find no record of Norman's death or serious criminal activity; the search leads Trevor (an ivory-tower caricature of outsize naivete) into grimy situations that shock, disorient, and flummox him. (""Did he have to come to a new place to see the distorted figures of the poor and the handicapped? . .
Main title:
The search / by Iain Crichton Smith.
Author:
Smith, Iain Crichton, 1928-1998, author
Publisher:
London : Gollancz, 1983.
Collation:
192 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN:
05750329799780575032972
Language:
English
Index terms:
Fiction in English1945-Texts
BRN:
153967
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