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In Every Face I Meet

Justin Cartwright
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Booker Prize
Booker Prize nominee author
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Commonwealth Prize
Commonwealth Writers Prize winner
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nelson mandela
novels set in south africa
shortlisted for the Booker Prize
shortlisted for Whitbread Novel Award
South Africa
Whitbread Award
Whitbread Award winner author

Product details

  • ISBN 9780340637838
  • Weight: 160g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Mar 1996
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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* shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Novel Award, and winner of a Commonwealth Writers Prize *

Set against the background of Nelson Mandela's release, IN EVERY FACE I MEET is the story of Anthony Northleach, and one intense, comic and horrifying day in his life.

With the brio and intelligence for which he has been so widely praised, Justin Cartwright captures the life of an apparently ordinary Englishman - his marriage, his work, his sexual relationships and his connection to the events and sports of the world around him - until his day takes on the aspect first of a waking dream then of a true nightmare.

Its horrifying conclusion, as Anthony Northleach runs into a south London prosititute, is shocking because the reader has come to see his story as both emblematic and savagely observant. Friendship, it seems, is all Anthony has left.
About Justin Cartwright
Born in South Africa, Justin Cartwright lived in Britain after studying at Trinity College, Oxford. He worked in advertising and directed documentaries, films and television commercials, and wrote seventeen novels. They include the Booker-shortlisted In Every Face I Meet, the Whitbread Novel Award-winner Leading the Cheers, the acclaimed White Lightning, shortlisted for the 2002 Whitbread Novel Award, The Promise of Happiness, winner of the 2005 Hawthornden Prize, The Song Before It Is Sung, To Heaven By Water, Other People's Money, Lion Heart and Up Against the Night. His novel Look At It This Way was made into a three-part drama by the BBC in 1992, and he also published three works of non-fiction. He died in December 2018.

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