The Partnership

The Partnership Book Description

In "The Partnership", Foley and Moss are partners in a successful small business, making plaster pixies for the tourists. Booker Prize winner Unsworth sets his scene magnificently with all the local characters of a Cornish village thriving on specious tourism.
Foley and Moss are partners in a successful small business, making plaster pixies for the tourist trade. Foley is the artistic member of the partnership; he thinks up the ideas and designs and has pretensions to even greater artistry in his cherub lamps and fixtures. Moss, the seemingly quiet one who supplied the capital for the venture, manufactures them. Barry Unsworth sets his scene magnificently -- a Cornish village, Lanruan, thriving on specious tourism, and its local characters: Graham, the primitive painter; Bailey, the loud-mouthed Northerner who comes to Lanruan to make his fortune; Barbara, the nearest thing the village possesses to a bad girl; and above all Gwendoline, who, inadvertently, begins the rift in the partnership between Foley and Moss.

The Partnership is a disquieting, darkly funny tale about hidden desires and the unspoken attachments we have for one another.

Barry Unsworth has contributed to The Partnership as an author. Barry Unsworth, who won the Booker Prize for Sacred Hunger, was a Booker Prize finalist for Morality Play and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize for The Ruby in Her Navel. He lives in Italy.

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