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First published in 1967, A Man of Good Abilities was Tony Parker's fifth book, and told the story of 65 year-old 'Norman Edwards', a compulsive swindler-embezzler for his whole adult life, one punctuated by numerous ineffective terms of imprisonment. Using journals, letters, and interview transcripts Parker drew a finessing portrait of a man and a seemingly intractable problem that he posed to society. "Tony Parker is a remarkably skilled and compassionate exponent of the documentary technique that he uses to illumine human character; with him, tape-recorded conversations are the stuff of art, not of mere photography". (New Society). "In his books the strength lies in the interpretive mind of the writer...He is a sociologist studying single cases in some depth and shows qualities of imagination shared by the historian and the biographer - a mixture of intelligence, sympathy and empathy". (TLS).

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Sociology

• Full title: Man of Good Abilities
• Author: Tony Parker
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 206
• EAN: 9780571304325
• ISBN: 057130432X
• ID: 04624615
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Weight: 272 g
• Dimensions: 136 × 217 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. August 2013

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