Death on Rua Augusta

Gordon Smith sat at an office desk for years before his mind gave way and he was let go. Now he lingers by the swimming pool behind his home near Fullerton, California, unless all this takes place on Lisbon's Rua Augusta. He keeps three notebooks, one for sketches, one as a diary and a blue one full of pools, and an inner voice he names Anonymous tells him what to put down. Donna, his wife, and Ralph, his closest friend, want him to behave like everyone else and press him to say where his money is; he insists it lies at the bottom of his pool, meaning one he has sketched rather than the real one.

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About the book

Form

Poetry

Length

148 pages in the original

Set in

United States, Portugal

First published

2009 by Almadía

Author's age

50 when first published

ISBN

9786074110333 (original)

9781908998224 (Eyewear Publishing, United Kingdom)