Author: WHITAKER, PHIL
Title: Triangulation
Description: Phoenix, UK. Softcover. Very Good Condition. 9780753807705 240 pages. Available Now. Book Description: In Triangulation, Phil Whitaker has created an almost perfect English novel - controlled, funny, seething with sexual tension. His stolidly anglo-saxon anti-hero John forms one angle of a three-sided love affair. At the other angles are Laurance, a shooting star, brilliant and glamorous, and Helen, a pretty young girl down from the country and ripe for adventure. Meeting in their first jobs at the newly civilianized Department of Overseas Survey, their lives intertwine. John and Laurance become friends, despite their obvious differences: Laurance's career takes him to Africa, John's into the dustier reaches of the Whitehall map library. When both fall in love with Helen, three lives collide. Phil Whitaker achieves many things in this fine novel, a faultless evocation of London in the late fifties, a love story that stays in the reader's mind long after the book is finished. : Amazon Review: In Triangulation, his second novel, Phil Whitaker straddles 30 years and two continents, linking the seemingly incongruous through the lives of three people. Told through correspondence, clippings and straight narration, the novel tells of the meeting of John, Lawrence and Helen at what was then the Directorate of Overseas Surveys at the end of the 1950s. Each is very different, embodying within the fabric of their personalities some of the moral, sexual and social changes that were taking place at a point in history characterised by flux. The security and orderliness of the maps that form the centre of their lives are contrasted with the events taking place around them, whether it's passion hiding within the dusty archives of the Directorate or the political turmoil of a country at the heart of an Africa on the brink of independence. The triangulation of the title refers both to the eternal linking of the relationships that carry the novel and to a method that allows a surveyor to chart and understand the land ahead of him. This process can be elating, sometimes destroying, but, as with life itself, it is relentless. Whitaker has written a poignant novel brimming with pathos and a gentle understanding of a withering age and the apparent sureties that held its philosophies together. Triangulation will definitely ensure that his is a name that will be heard more often. --Natasha Billing : Book Description: Second novel by prize-winning author; a triangular love story set in London and Africa in the fifties Size: 12.7 x 2 x 19.7 cm. 240 pages. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 2. Category: Fiction; Paperback; ISBN: 075380770X. ISBN/EAN: 9780753807705. Inventory No: F244-1174.

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