Borrowed Time /
Jackont, Amnon.
Borrowed Time / Amnon Jackont - London, United Kingdom : Hamish Hamilton Ltd, c1986 - 233 pages ; 23 cm.
It is a first novel and it is a hybrid, a thriller inhabited by people and ideas that are supposed to be taken seriously. This is a perilous task for a writer: the plot must move with the narrative overdrive of high adventure, but the people threaten to slow the action as the author develops their ideas, strengths and flaws.
241118476
ENGLISH FICTION
FIC .J32 1986
Borrowed Time / Amnon Jackont - London, United Kingdom : Hamish Hamilton Ltd, c1986 - 233 pages ; 23 cm.
It is a first novel and it is a hybrid, a thriller inhabited by people and ideas that are supposed to be taken seriously. This is a perilous task for a writer: the plot must move with the narrative overdrive of high adventure, but the people threaten to slow the action as the author develops their ideas, strengths and flaws.
241118476
ENGLISH FICTION
FIC .J32 1986