This second novel by the author of "Flying to nowhere", which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Whitbread Prize in 1983, tells of a composer's passion for a black jazz singer. There soon develops a mystery, which leads to pursuit, bewilderment and the final dissolution of his fleeting adventure. John Fuller has been a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford for the past twenty years and is the author of many volumes of poetry and a collection of short stories, "The Adventures of Speedfall" (1985). His "Selected Poems" appeared in Penguin in 1985.
- ISBN10 0099877007
- ISBN13 9780099877004
- Publish Date 12 June 1997 (first published 28 April 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 August 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Vintage
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 202
- Language English