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Rustication - Couverture rigide

Palliser, Charles

 
9780393088724: Rustication
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0393088723 ISBN 13 : 9780393088724
Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2013

Synopsis

Charles Palliser's work has been hailed as "so compulsively absorbing that reality disappears" (New York Times). Since his extraordinary debut, The Quincunx, his works have sold over one million copies worldwide. With his new novel, Rustication, he returns to the town of Thurchester, which he evoked so hauntingly in The Unburied.

It is winter 1863, and Richard Shenstone, aged seventeen, has been sent down--"rusticated"--from Cambridge under a cloud of suspicion. Addicted to opium and tormented by sexual desire, he finds temporary refuge in a dilapidated old mansion on the southern English coast inhabited by his newly impoverished mother and his sister, Effie. Soon, graphic and threatening letters begin to circulate among his neighbors, and Richard finds himself the leading suspect in a series of crimes and misdemeanors ranging from vivisection to murder.

Atmospheric, lurid, and brilliantly executed, Rustication confirms Palliser's reputation as "our leading contemporary Victorian novelist" (Guardian).

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À propos de l'auteur

Charle Palliser was born in Massachusetts, but has lived in the UK since the age of three. A graduate of Oxford University, he writes full time in London.

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Éditeur
WW Norton & Co
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0393088723
ISBN 13 
9780393088724
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
336
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Buchpark GmbH
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