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  Climbers: A Novel (Paperback) By (author) M.John Harrison

  

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  Short Description for ClimbersThe only novel ever to win the Boardman Tasker Prize: 'Sheer brilliance' - Iain M. Banks
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  • Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
  • Published: 04 November 2004
  • Format: Paperback 224 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780753819555 ISBN 10: 0753819554
  • Sales rank: 768,263

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• Retreating from his failed marriage to Pauline, Mike leaves London for the Yorkshire moors, where he meets Normal and his entourage, busy pursuing their own dreams of escape. Travelling from crag to crag throughout the country, they are searching for the unattainable: the perfect climb. Through rock-climbing, Mike discovers an intensity of experience - a wash of pain, fear and excitement - that obliterates the rest of his world. Increasingly addicted to the adrenalin, folklore and camaraderie of the sport, he finds, for a time, a genuine escape. But it is gained at a price...This dark, witty and poetic novel is full of the rugged beauty of nature, of the human drive to test oneself against extremes, and of the elation such escape can bring.