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Can I read Play Dead on EtoBox?
Play Dead by Dickinson, Peter, 1927-2015 is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Play Dead about?
The time is 1989, year of tremendous upheaval throughout the Communist worldand a time of uncanny calm for Poppy Tasker, a young gran looking after her grandson at a London play center. Divorced, dreaming of fantasy lovers, and feeling like an outsider, she wonders whatif anythingthe future holds. Then, silhouetted under the trees of the playground a man appears...staring intensely at her own adored Toby. Suddenly, Poppys life becomes perhaps a little too interesting: a corpse is found grotesquely garnished near the playground, strangers watch her apartment and make ominous phone calls, police inspectors question her, and the political turmoil of her time reaches into her life in the form of a very intriguingand possibly dangerousnew man.
Who reads Play Dead?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Dickinson, Peter, 1927-2015
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780892964789
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Thriller, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.61 / 5 (30 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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