Rustication - A Novel - Brossura

Palliser Charles

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0393348237 ISBN 13: 9780393348231

Casa editrice: Norton, 2013

Riassunto

Charles Palliser’s work has been hailed as “so compulsively absorbing that reality disappears” (New York Times). Since his extraordinary debut, The Quincunx, his works have sold over one million copies worldwide. With his new novel, Rustication, he returns to the town of Thurchester, which he evoked so hauntingly in The Unburied. It is winter 1863, and Richard Shenstone, aged seventeen, has been sent down―“rusticated”―from Cambridge under a cloud of suspicion. Addicted to opium and tormented by sexual desire, he finds temporary refuge in a dilapidated old mansion on the southern English coast inhabited by his newly impoverished mother and his sister, Effie. Soon, graphic and threatening letters begin to circulate among his neighbors, and Richard finds himself the leading suspect in a series of crimes and misdemeanors ranging from vivisection to murder. Atmospheric, lurid, and brilliantly executed, Rustication confirms Palliser’s reputation as “our leading contemporary Victorian novelist” (Guardian).

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Informazioni sull'autore

Charles Palliser was born in Massachusetts but has lived in the UK since the age of three. A graduate of Oxford University, he has published four novels and writes full time.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Norton
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0393348237
• ISBN 13: 9780393348231
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 336
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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