The Death Of Men
Allan Massie
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Introduced by Joseph Farrell
Corrado Dusa is head of Italy’s Christian Democrat Party and the country’s senior minister. He is also considered to be the key figure in resolving the crisis of dissent and violence that permeates political life.
But Dusa has been kidnapped and now his son, Bernardo, a member of a militant extremist group, has disappeared. The press is aghast while the family sense disaster. Can Dusa’s release be negotiated? Under what conditions? And - most importantly - with what results?
Massie’s stylish and enthralling thriller won a Scottish Arts Council Award and, with its continued relevance, is sure to win new admirers.
“A complex novel of ideas which is also an excellent piece of dramatic writing.”
new Statesman
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“Compulsive readability”
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“It raises large questions about European society, the influence on it of America (seen as unmitigated disaster) the causes of terrorism, the moral alternatives open to individuals in an immoral world”
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Allan Massie
Allan Massie was born on 19 October 1938 in Singapore, and was educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond and Trinity College, Cambridge. He began his career as a teacher (1960-71) at Drumtochty Castle School, and also taught English as a second language in Rome (1972-5). He was Creative Writing Fellow at Edinburgh University (1982-4) and at Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities (1985-6). He was a member of the Scottish Arts Council (1989-91), a Trustee of the National Museums of Scotland (1995-8), and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Allan Massie was a columnist for the Glasgow Herald (1985-8) and the Sunday Times Scotland (1987-91), and has been fiction reviewer for The Scotsman since 1976. He has been a columnist for the Daily Telegraph since 1991, The Daily Mail since 1994, and the Sunday Times Scotland since 1996. A former editor of the New Edinburgh Review, he also contributes to the Sunday Telegraph and The Spectator.