very good condition. From the back cover:

Nick Freear - convicted vandal, failed entrepreneur, estranged from his wife and son - sees his life in shards around him. Lloyd Jones's second novel, characteristically full of raw buffoonery and wit, traces Nick's efforts to discern meaning in so much scattered evidence. In this bizarre enquiry, personal histories swell with monstrous significance while the chronicles of Hutt Valley and of the nation dwindle to cameos within the pattern of single lives - notably that of Aurielle, deft manipulator of history, whose letters are found by her great grandson, Nick. Skewered by his past, he is alarmed to find it as much of a mess - and just as achingly funny - as the present. Splinter is a tour de force of unmitigated originality and humour.