The Requiem Shark: A Novel - Rilegato

Griffin, Nicholas

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0375503366 ISBN 13: 9780375503368

Casa editrice: Villard Books, 2000

Riassunto

A young man forced into apprenticeship with a former slave trader who now captains a pirate vessel tells the vivid story of his life sailing to the ends of the earth during the eighteenth century. A first novel. 25,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

"Plenty of action and horrific thrills, without a salty cliche in sight.  A splendid debut."
--STARRED Kirkus Review
"Remarkable . . . a vivid and authentic picture of life at sea that is second to none."  
-- The Daily Mail

"Dexterously handled ... ingenious.  Legend, anecdote and delusion are skillfully conflated to give Griffin's story its impetus . . . . The atmosphere of lawlessness and the period detail are faultlessly  rendered."  
-- The Independent

"A gory and glorious tale of piracy set on the high seas of the early 18th century ... marvelously exciting. ... Nicholas Griffin has taken an old fashioned subject and breathed into it modernity and considerable wit."
-- The Spectator

Griffin's attempts to make more out of the crew than a group of swashbuckling stereotypes [gives The Requiem Shark] a moral compass after its unflinching depiction of the pirates' barbarities. [Griffin] allows the reader to experience them as distant cousins of the savageries we witness today.  
-- The Times Literary Supplement

Nicholas Griffin has delved into the dark world of the pirates and has successfully conjured up the authentic atmosphere of anarchy, double-dealing and casual violence.
-- David Cordingly, author of Under the Black Flag

Fascinating research into every aspect of early eighteenth-century seafaring, the Caribbean and piracy, prose that is a wonderfully original blend of pastiche and the raciest action writing you'll find anywhere.
-- Julian Rathbone, author of The Last English King

L'autore:

Nicholas Griffin is twenty-eight years old.  The Requiem Shark is his first novel and he is at work on a second, set in the world of anatomists and body-snatchers in eighteenth-century London.

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• Editore: Villard Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375503366
• ISBN 13: 9780375503368
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 319