The Oversight
A flawless fictional debut from a great young writer, shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award.
In 1983, an ordinary teenager called Daniel Rathbone fell in love, spurned a friend, and stumbled on the ability to see in the dark. On his twenty-fifth birthday, Daniel is bequeathed a second no less unusual gift — a Victorian writing box, the legacy of his father and the repository of his youthful secrets, and of his current feelings of guilt. When a visit from the once-spurned friend, Carey Schumacher, coincides with the death of a contemporary, Daniel's peculiar endowments are enlisted to make lasting sense of lost time and place.
From Bath to Brixton, from the 1960s to the 90s, The Oversight follows a trail of thwarted and victorious affections. It is an intently comic tale of vision and delusion; of family, friendship and desertion; and of the divisively cruel need to belong. A multi-layered debut of distinction.
- Author
- Will Eaves
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Picador USA
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 978-0-330-48140-3
- EAN
- 9780330481403
- Genres
- lgbt, fiction
- Release date
- 2002
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