London Bridges

STEVENSON, JANE

ISBN 10: 0224059408 / ISBN 13: 9780224059404

Edité par London: Jonathan Cape, 2000., 2000

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: London Bridges
• Éditeur: London: Jonathan Cape, 2000.
• Date de parution: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0224059408
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780224059404
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good

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Synopsis

Jane Stevenson's collection of novellas, SEVERAL DECEPTIONS, was one of the critical successes of 1999 - here is a gossipy, smart, critical intellectual, high spirited and literate voice, (TLS) If Stevenson never writes another word, she is already more than promising (SUNDAY TIMES), There is a sense that here we have only seen oen angle of her considerable talent (OBSERVER). LONDON BRIDGES, Stevensons first novel, evokes the mood and sheer enjoyability of classic English detective fiction, though it is set in the London of the 1990s. A young lawyer comes across a treasure lost in the Blitz, and is tempted into a series of crimes which end eventually in murder. Meanwhile, a very contemporary cast of characters assembles to confound him. The denouement of the intricate plot occurs in the Cotswolds, and invloves teddy bears, Greek monks, New Age Bikers and the source of the Thames, and the scintillating wit and intelligence that distinguished SEVERAL DECEPTIONS.

À propos de l?auteur

Jane Stevenson is the author of two collections of novellas, Several Deceptions and Good Women, and four novels, London Bridges, Astraea, The Pretender and The Empress of the Last Days. She is a professor in the history department at Aberdeen University and holds the Regius Chair of Humanity.