Swimmers' rope
By: Stephanie Johnson
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Auckland, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9781869790257
Subjects: Male friendship; Fiction; Roman; Englisch
Description: "Friends since childhood Norman and Lyn grow up as next-door neighbours in Herne Bay at the turn of the twentieth century. When Lyn is sent to manage a central North Island timber mill at the tender age of fourteen, Norman goes to visit him. There he is forced to confront a mysterious adult truth. Later, in their twenties, the two men commit an act so appalling that it ruptures their friendship for many years."--Jacket.
Notes: Novel.