August
By: Bernard Beckett
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780857387899
Subjects: Death; Traffic accident victims; Man-woman relationships; Fiction
Description: Trapped in a car wreck, upside down, bleeding, broken and in pain, Tristan and Grace are staring at death. As they await their fate, with only a glimmer of hope they might be seen and rescued, we discover the stories of their lives, the sequences of events that brought them together and the shocking truth behind the cause of their crash. Tristan, a brilliant student at the privileged St Augustines school within the walls of the City, was the subject of an elaborate series of experiments on the seemingly contradictory concepts of determinism and free will. Part willing participant and part unknowing victim, Tristan grapples with the apparent irrefutability of a deterministic world.