Courting Shadows - Couverture rigide

Poster, Jem

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0340822570 ISBN 13 : 9780340822579

Editeur : Sceptre, 2002

Synopsis

In the winter of 1881 John Stannard, a young architect, is in self-imposed exile in a remote English village carrying out repairs to the parish church. Arrogant and insensitive to the needs of others, he soon begins to inflict serious damage on the thirteenth century building itself and on those with whom he comes into contact, but this is nothing to the problems that arise when he catches the eye of beautiful ambitious young local girl Ann Rosewell. As the villagers turn nasty and lust leads him astray, Stannard struggles to keep a grip on his sanity and what begins as an innocent affair soon descends into a nightmarish journey that ends in murder. Courting Shadows is a gripping exploration of truth vs fiction, head vs heart and progress vs preservation. Most of all it is about the creation of fictions and our capacity to deceive not only each other but most of all ourselves.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jem Poster has worked as an archaeologist and is now a University Lecturer in Literature at Oxford University's Department for Continuing Education. Since 1998 he has also been Director of the department's Diploma in Creative Writing. His poetry has won awards in major competitions and he is the author of a selection of George Crabbe's poetry, a study of the poetry of the 1930s, and articles on modern poetry and fiction. His first full-length collection, Brought to Light, was published in 2001. Courting Shadows is his first novel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sceptre
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0340822570
• ISBN 13: 9780340822579
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
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• Personne responsable: non disponible