The Partnership

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/17/2001
ISBN: 9780393321470
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.51w x 0.60d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2001 pg. 699
Publishers Weekly 06/25/2001 pg. 44
Library Journal 07/01/2001 pg. 126
New York Times 08/12/2001 pg. 13