An Instance Of The Fingerpost - Couverture souple

Iain Pears

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 009975181X ISBN 13 : 9780099751816

Editeur : Vintage, 1998

Synopsis

Oxford, 1660s. A scholar is dead, a woman stands accused, and four men tell their versions of the truth.

Each testimony contradicts the last - and only one reveals what truly happened.

Pears’ sweeping novel combines intellectual intrigue with page-turning mystery. An Instance of the Fingerpost is a triumph of storytelling: erudite, immersive and utterly gripping.

‘A novel that combines the simple pleasures of Agatha Christie with the intellectual subtlety of Umberto Eco’ The Times

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Iain Pears was born in 1955. He is the author of seven detective novels, a book of art history and countless articles on artistic, financial and historical subjects, and five novels, An Instance of the Fingerpost, The Dream of Scipio, The Portrait, Stone's Fall and Arcadia.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Set in Oxford in the 1660s - a time and place of great intellectual, religious, scientific and political ferment - this remarkable novel centres around a young woman, Sarah Blundy, who stands accused of the murder of Robert Grove, a fellow of New College. Four witnesses describe the events surrounding his death: Marco da Cola, a Venetian Catholic intent on claiming credit for the invention of blood transfusion;Jack Prescott, the son of a supposed traitor to the Royalist cause, determined to vindicate his f

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 009975181X
• ISBN 13: 9780099751816
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 704
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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