The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

Dahlquist, Gordon

ISBN 10: 0743555880 ISBN 13: 9780743555883

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster, 2006

Riassunto

It began with a simple note: a letter of rejection delivered to Miss Temple on her maid's silver tray. But for Miss Temple, her fiancé's cruel rejection will ignite a harrowing quest for truth, plunging her into a mystery as dizzying as a hall of mirrors. Thus begins Gordon Dahlquist's spectacular literary debut, a novel of Victorian suspense that shatters conventions and seethes with danger and eroticism.

Miss Temple's pursuit soon leads to a remote, forbidding estate where all inhibitions are laid bare and shocking discoveries lie behind its closed doors: men and women in provocative disguise, acts of licentiousness and violence, heroism and awakening. But she will also find two allies: Cardinal Chang, a brutal assassin with the heart of a poet, and a royal doctor named Svenson, at once fumbling and heroic -- both of whom, like her, lost someone at Harschmort Manor. The search for answers hurtles this unlikely trio from elegant brothels and gaslit alleyways to astonishing moments of self-discovery and ever-mounting peril. For the conspiracy they face -- a perverted alchemy of science, religion, and lust for power -- is terrifying beyond belief.

By turns brutal and tender, shocking and deliciously romantic, The Glass Books of The Dream Eaters is a novel for the ages, a bold and brilliant work of the imagination.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Playwright Gordon Dahlquist was born in the Pacific Northwest and lives in New York City. This is his first novel.

Product Description:

Book by Dahlquist Gordon

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Simon & Schuster
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0743555880
• ISBN 13: 9780743555883
• Rilegatura: Audio CD