A Slight Trick of the Mind - Rilegato

Cullin, Mitch

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ISBN 10: 0385513283 ISBN 13: 9780385513289

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 2005

Riassunto

In 1947, ninety-three-year-old Sherlock Holmes lives out his retirement in a remote Sussex farmhouse with a housekeeper and her young son, Roger, who stumbles upon information about Holmes's secret past and long-ago infatuation with Mrs. Keller, while the one-time master detective tends his apiary, writes in journals, and copes with the fading powers of his mind. 50,000 first printing.

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"Mitch Cullin has written a loving, sad tale of Sherlock Holmes in the era of Hiroshima, a Holmes who is not entirely sure of his powers, but who has come into his own humanity. When I was a child I believed that Holmes was a real person. After reading A Slight Trick of the Mind, I know he is." – Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife

"As he explores the mysteries of fatherless boys and childless men, Mitch Cullin transports his reader effortlessly from post-war Japan to Edwardian London. A Slight Trick of the Mind is both intricate and absorbing, a novel of unusual range and depth."
-- Margot Livesey, author of Banishing Verona: A Novel

"What a pleasure it was to re-enter Sherlock Holmes's world, and find the aged detective as intelligent and observant as I'd remembered. In Mitch Cullin's imagination, however, Holmes is more pensive and wistful—more human—than ever before. A Slight Trick of the Mind is an elegant meditation on memory and mortality, brilliantly conceived and beautifully written, full of subtlety and wisdom and grace." – Karl Iagnemma, author of On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction

L'autore:

MITCH CULLIN is the author of six books, including Tideland and Branches, a novel-in-verse. He lives in California’s San Gabriel Valley, where in addition to writing fiction, he collaborates on various projects with the artist Peter I. Chang.

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• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0385513283
• ISBN 13: 9780385513289
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 253