Hawksmoor - Couverture rigide

Ackroyd, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0241116643 ISBN 13 : 9780241116647

Editeur : Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1985

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Présentation de l'éditeur

'There is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe'So proclaims Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and the man with a commission to build seven London churches to stand as beacons of the enlightenment. But Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each church - to create a forbidding architecture that will survive for eternity. Two hundred and fifty years later, London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the sites of certain eighteenth-century churches - crimes that make no sense to the modern mind . . . 'Chillingly brilliant . . . sinister and stunningly well executed' Independent on SundayPeter Ackroyd was born in London in 1949. A novelist, biographer and historian, he has been the literary editor of The Spectator and chief book reviewer for the The Times, as well as writing several highly acclaimed books including a biography of Dickens and London: The Biography. He lives in London.

Présentation de l'éditeur

W osiemnastowiecznym Londynie architekt Nicholas Dyer zajmuje sie budowa kosciolów. W odróznieniu od swego kolegi, Christophera Wrena, przesiaknietego naukowym optymizmem epoki rozumu, Dyer ma obsesje wnikania w mroczne aspekty ludzkiej natury, co determinuje jego zycie i prace. Jego dwudziestowieczne alter ego, detektyw Scotland Yardu nazwiskiem Hawksmoor, prowadzi sledztwo w sprawie serii morderstw, dokonanych na kilku budowlach kosciolów. Tak samo jak niegdys Dyera, drecza go watpliwosci, w nastepstwie czego znajdzie sie na krawedzi utraty zmyslów.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hamish Hamilton Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1985
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0241116643
• ISBN 13: 9780241116647
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible