His Bloody Project : Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae (Man Booker Prize Finalist 2016)

Burnet, Graeme Macrae

ISBN 10: 1510719210 / ISBN 13: 9781510719217

Edité par Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2016

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• Titre: His Bloody Project : Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae (Man Booker Prize Finalist 2016)
• Éditeur: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
• Date de parution: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1510719210
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781510719217
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Good

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Synopsis

Man Booker Prize Finalist, LA Times Book Prize Finalist, New York Times Editor's Choice, and an American Booksellers Association National Indie Bestseller!

Named a Best Book of 2016 by Newsweek, NPR, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Sunday Times!

In the smash hit historical thriller that the New York Times Book Review calls "thought provoking fiction," a brutal triple murder in a remote Scottish farming community in 1869 leads to the arrest of seventeen-year-old Roderick Macrae. There is no question that Macrae committed this terrible act. What would lead such a shy and intelligent boy down this bloody path? And will he hang for his crime?

Presented as a collection of documents discovered by the author, His Bloody Project opens with a series of police statements taken from the villagers of Culdie, Ross-shire. They offer conflicting impressions of the accused; one interviewee recalls Macrae as a gentle and quiet child, while another details him as evil and wicked. Chief among the papers is Roderick Macrae's own memoirs where he outlines the series of events leading up to the murder in eloquent and affectless prose. There follow medical reports, psychological evaluations, a courtroom transcript from the trial, and other documents that throw both Macrae's motive and his sanity into question.

Graeme Macrae Burnet's multilayered narrative--centered around an unreliable narrator--will keep the reader guessing to the very end. His Bloody Project is a deeply imagined crime novel that is both thrilling and luridly entertaining from an exceptional new voice.

À propos de l?auteur

Graeme Macrae Burnet has established a reputation for smart and literary mystery writing with his highly praised novel, His Bloody Project, which was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He was born and brought up in Kilmarnock and has lived in Prague, Bordeaux, Porto, and London. He now lives in Glasgow, Scotland.