Talulla Rising - Rilegato

Glen Duncan

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1847679471 ISBN 13: 9781847679475

Casa editrice: Canongate Books Ltd, 2012

Riassunto

Talulla Demetriou is the last living werewolf. And she is pregnant. Pursued by enemies and racked by the need to kill, she flees to a remote Alaskan hunting lodge to have her child in secret. There, with her infant son in her arms, it looks as if the worst is over. Until the door bursts open - and she discovers that the worst is only just beginning . . . Talulla is plunged into a race against time to save her son. Tormented by guilt and fuelled by rage, she is pursued by deadly forces - including (rumour has it) the oldest living vampire on earth. Hopeless odds. Unless, of course, a mother's love for her child turns out to be the deadliest force of all . . .

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Recensione:

'Loaded with beautifully constructed lunatic ravings... It is a horror that never shies from the human side of lycanthropy; it is a disquisition on the nature of werewolf stories; it is a sublime study in literary elegance. It is bloody (and) brilliant' -- Independent on Sunday

A brilliantly original thriller, a love story, a witty treatise on male (and female) urges, even an existential musing on what it is to be human.' - Word Magazine

'Playfully brainy... wry, world-weary Jake Marlowe would make a fabulous dinner companion. Just not during a full moon' - Justin Cronin, author of The Passage, New York Times

'A magnificent novel. A brutal, indignant, lunatic howl. A sexy, blood-spattered page-turner, beautifully crafted and full of genuine suspense, that tears the thorax out of the horror genre to create something that stands rapturous and majestic and entirely on its own' - Nick Cave

'As well as being thought-provoking, it's all great fun. Some of the conventions are borrowed from genre fiction, but the writing sure isn't... Duncan's writing does more than transcend genre fiction: it creeps up on it in the dead of night, rips out its heart, then eats it' -- Scarlett Thomas, Guardian

'This bloodthirsty page turner is as far removed from teen schmaltz Twilight as you can imagine' -- Big Issue

'The horror genre at its best - wildly imaginative, written with wit and intelligence, wickedly entertaining' --Kate Saunders, The Times

'This is pulp fiction but of the highest order...a wonderfully constructed universe of hipster philosophy, hard-bitten humour, just enough arcane mystery and a whole load of Tarrantino-Technicolour sex and violence . . . it goes way beyond genre writing' --Word Magazine

'A rip-roaring narrative of jet set travel transgressive sex, secret societies, vampires, mercenaries, familiars and silver bullets' -- SFX Magazine

'Bonkers but brilliant' --Daily Mirror

L'autore:

GLEN DUNCAN was born in Bolton in 1965 and studied philosophy and literature at Lancaster University. His first novel, Hope, was published in 1997, and has been followed by seven further novels: Love Remains; I, Lucifer, shortlisted for the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; Weathercock; Death of an Ordinary Man; The Bloodstone Papers; and A Day and A Night and A Day. The Last Werewolf was published in 2011 and is the first in a trilogy of which Talulla Rising forms the second part. Duncan lives in London.

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• Editore: Canongate Books Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1847679471
• ISBN 13: 9781847679475
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 425