Drood: A Novel - Couverture souple

Simmons, Dan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0316120618 ISBN 13 : 9780316120616

Editeur : Little, Brown and Company, 2011

Synopsis

Book by Simmons Dan

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens--at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world--hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever . 

Did Dickens begin living a dark double life after the accident? Were his nightly forays into the worst slums of  London and his deepening obsession with corpses, crypts, murder, opium dens, the use of lime pits to dissolve bodies, and a hidden subterranean London mere research . . . or something more terrifying?

Just as he did in The Terror, Dan Simmons draws impeccably from history to create a gloriously engaging and terrifying narrative. Based on the historical details of Charles Dickens's life and narrated by Wilkie Collins (Dickens's friend, frequent collaborator, and Salieri-style secret rival), DROOD explores the still-unsolved mysteries of the famous author's last years and may provide the key to Dickens's final, unfinished work: The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chilling, haunting, and utterly original, DROOD is Dan Simmons at his powerful best.

Revue de presse :

"A dazzling journey through a crooked, gaslit labyrinth and a tenebrous portraiture of the tortured minotaurs that dwell within. Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss."―Guillermo del Toro, writer and director of The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth

" A spellbinding tale, bold and sly and so steeped in the filigree of this era that it seems to have been written just after a séance during which both Dickens and Wilkie Collins were present."―Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune

"Simmons has captured to a tee the high style of late Victorian melodrama: the story line is consistently engrossing and utterly unpredictable. This rip-roaring adventure is a true page-turner."―Library Journal

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Little, Brown and Company
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0316120618
• ISBN 13: 9780316120616
• Reliure: Poche
• Nombre de pages: 976