Rustication: A Novel - Brossura

Palliser, Charles

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0393349810 ISBN 13: 9780393349818

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2014

Riassunto

In 1863, a sexually obsessed opium addict is sent away from Cambridge to live in the country where he becomes the lead suspect in a series of threatening letters and crimes in this new novel from the author of The Quincunx. 50,000 first printing.

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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.

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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).

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0393349810
• ISBN 13: 9780393349818
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 326
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile