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The Vanishing

Tim Krabbé

Petrol gauge broken, anxiety and tempers flaring, young lovers Rex and Saskia pull in at a service station to refuel. As soon as they stop the tension is relieved. Rex buries two coins in a crack at the base of a fence post as a secret sign of their love- Saskia goes off to buy a couple of cold drinks and vanishes. Eight years later Rex is still haunted by her. Then one day he sees scrawled in the grime of a yellow car parked outside his window two lines- REX YOU'RE SO SWEET SANDRA and WHEN I WRITE THIS IT SHOWS THE PAIN... and the obsession burns in his blood once again.

GenresMissing personsFictionThrillers (Fiction)

108 pages, 2 editions

English edition · First published 1993 by Bloomsbury · ISBN 9780679419730

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Editions

2 editions

English

  • The vanishing · Bloomsbury · 1993 · ISBN 9780679419730 This page
  • The Vanishing · Bloomsbury · 2003 · ISBN 9780747565338

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