God's Own Contry Amanda Foody Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe and

Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe and Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer

and a damning indictment of how an ambitious young writer expropriated another mans ideas and then engaged in an elaborate cover-up of The Pickwick Papers true origin

hoping to find a body

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which focuses a college don who has been the victim of a hoax -- a false obituary

God's Own Contry Amanda Foody Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe andGranta Best Young British Novelist and Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, Shortlisted for NINE literary awards 'Ross Raisin's story of how a disturbed but basically well intentioned rural youngster turns into a malevolent sociopath is both chilling in its effect and convincing in its execution' J. M. Coetzee 'Utterly frightening and electrifying' Joshua Ferris 'Astonishing, funny, unsettling An unforgettable creation [whose] literary forebears