An Instance of the Fingerpost: A Novel - Brossura

Pears, Iain

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ISBN 10: 1573227951 ISBN 13: 9781573227957

Casa editrice: Riverhead Books, 2000

Riassunto

In an epic literary mystery, when a fellow of New College in seventeenth-century Oxford is found dead and a young woman is accused of his murder, four witnesses, each with their own agenda, tell what they saw, but only one speaks the truth. Reprint.

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“May well be the best ‘historical mystery’ ever written.”—The Sunday Boston Globe
 
“Ingenious.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
 
“[A] crafty, utterly mesmerizing intellectual thriller...Don’t miss it.” —The Washington Post Book World
 
“If you liked Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose, you should run to buy Iain Pears’s lavishly erudite historical mystery.” —The New York Times
 
“Fascinating...quite extraordinary...elevates the murder mystery to the category of high art.” —Los Angeles
 
“Extraordinary...this thriller brings not merely a huge cast of characters but a whole century vividly to life.” —Newsweek
 
“[A] novel that will have you sitting up all night and calling in sick the next day.  It’s that hard to put down.” —Houston Chronicle
 
“Enthralling.” —San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

L'autore:

Iain Pears was born in 1955. Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, he has worked as a journalist, an art historian, and a television consultant in England, France, Italy, and the United States. He is the author of seven highly praised detective novels, a book of art history, and countless articles on artistic, financial, and historical subjects, as well as the international bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost. He lives in Oxford, England.

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• Editore: Riverhead Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1573227951
• ISBN 13: 9781573227957
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 704