Mortal Love: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Hand, Elizabeth

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ISBN 10 : 0061051705 ISBN 13 : 9780061051708

Editeur : William Morrow, 2004

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Lush, thrilling, and erotically charged, a triumph of suspense and dazzling imagination, Elizabeth Hand's Mortal Love is an extraordinary work that spans more than a century, uniting genius past and present with strange, tensile strands of inspiration, obsession, and lust.

A tragedy that occurs in a hospital for the insane in Frankfurt, Germany, will have repercussions across decades and eras. Several weeks after the death of a female patient in a terrible fire, the poet Algernon Swinburne follows a mysterious woman through the shadows toward a remarkable event at once enthralling, stimulating, and terrifying beneath the streets of London. Years later, at the start of a new century, a struggling young artist, Radborne Comstock, is introduced to a ravishing beauty who immediately becomes his muse, his desire, and his greatest torment. It is a legacy of pleasure and madness that will be passed down to his grandson, the dilettante actor Valentine Comstock, who is plagued by disturbing and increasingly erotic visions. And in the present day a journalist named Daniel Rowlands is seduced by the bewitching and mercurial Larkin Meade, who holds the key to lost artistic masterpieces, and to secrets too devastating to imagine.

What connects these men -- and others whose grand destinies are to imagine and create -- is one woman. Eternal, unknowable, the very ideal of beauty and desirability, she exists somewhere beyond the boundaries of time, a sensuous dream of flesh and fantasy to inspire or destroy, an immortal lover ... or an angel of death.

Revue de presse :

“A brilliant novel like Elizabeth Hand’s recent Mortal Love deserves all the readers it can get.” (Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World)

“The novel succeeds as both a thriller and a meditation on the mysterious nature of inspiration.” (Village Voice)

“A wonderfully Gothic atmosphere, with lush visual imagery and rich poetic language.” (Library Journal)

“A lushly written treat that is also that rarest of things, a thought-provoking literary page-turner.” (BookPage)

“Elizabeth Hand is a writer whose vision, and whose writing into that extraordinary vision of hers, is exceptional...” (Bradford Morrow)

“ I think she has written the best book of her generation.” (Peter Straub)

“Don’t turn the pages too fast if you can help it.” (John Crowley)

“You don’t so much read this novel as drink it down, like absinthe.” (Kelly Link)

“A great gothic read, and one that dishes up all the dark delights.” (James Reese, author of The Book of ShadowsJames Reese, author of The Book of ShadowsJames Reese, author of The Book of ShadowsJames Reese, author of The Book of Shadows)

“Mortal Love is a wildly intelligent, dangerously sexy read.” (Alisa Kwitney, author of Does She or Doesn't She?)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: William Morrow
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0061051705
• ISBN 13: 9780061051708
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 384