Isbn: 9780965860642 - [an instance of the fingerpost] [by: iain pears] (29 risultati)

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Paperback. Condizione: Good. A national bestseller and one of the New York Public Library's Books to Remember, An Instance of the Fingerpost is a thrilling historical mystery from Iain Pears. It is 1663, and England is wracked with intrigue and civil strife. When an Oxford don is murdered, it seems at first that the incident can have nothing to do with great matters of church and state.Yet, little is as it seems in this gripping novel, which dramatizes the ways in which witnesses can see the same events yet remember them falsely. Each of four narrators--a Venetian medical student, a young man intent on proving his late father innocent of treason, a cryptographer, and an archivist--fingers a different culprit.an erudite and entertaining tour de force. --People Iain Pears's The Dream of Scipio and The Portrait are also available from Riverhead Books.…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. A national bestseller and one of the New York Public Library's Books to Remember, An Instance of the Fingerpost is a thrilling historical mystery from Iain Pears. It is 1663, and England is wracked with intrigue and civil strife. When an Oxford don is murdered, it seems at first that the incident can have nothing to do with great matters of church and state.Yet, little is as it seems in this gripping novel, which dramatizes the ways in which witnesses can see the same events yet remember them falsely. Each of four narrators--a Venetian medical student, a young man intent on proving his late father innocent of treason, a cryptographer, and an archivist--fingers a different culprit.an erudite and entertaining tour de force. --People Iain Pears's The Dream of Scipio and The Portrait are also available from Riverhead Books.…

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Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. Not Stated. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998. Softcover Trade Size. Very Good. 5th Printing. 691 pages.

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Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. Soft cover in fine condition. Presents as new and unread. Wraps clean and unmarked; no creases or wrinkles. Interior text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. A hefty volume approximately 9" tall x 6" wide x 1 3/4" thick; 691 numbered pages. * From the Worldcat summary, " The year is 1663, and the setting is Oxford, England, during the height of Restoration political intrigue. When Dr. Robert Grove is found dead in his Oxford room, hands clenched and face frozen in a rictus of pain, all the signs point to poison. Rashomon-like, the narrative circles around Grove's murder as four different characters give their version of events: Marco da Cola, a visiting Italian physician--or so he would like the reader to believe; Jack Prestcott, the son of a traitor who fled the country to avoid execution; Dr. John Wallis, a mathematician and cryptographer with a predilection for conspiracy theories; and Anthony Wood, a mild-mannered Oxford antiquarian whose tale proves to be the book's "instance of the fingerpost.".…

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