Betrayals - Hardcover

Palliser, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345369599 ISBN 13: 9780345369598

Verlag: Ballantine Books, 1995

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Book by Palliser Charles

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A theme of betrayal links several seemingly unrelated events, including the death of a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, a train on the wrong side of the tracks during a snowstorm, and a publisher summary of a tacky romance novel

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pnotic murder mystery, scathing literary parody, soap opera, and brilliant pastiche, Betrayals is an astonishing virtuouso performance by a modern master of literary gamesmanship in the tradition of Vladimir Nabokov and John Barth.
The novel unforlds in a series of seemingly unrelated narratives, each written in a different style -- indeed, in a different genre. There is an obituary for a Scottish scientist and Nobel Prize winner, written by a colleague who clearly relishes his death. Early in the century, a train in the Scottish Highlands heads down the wrong track during a winter snowstorm, and the passengers are forced to abandon the train, resulting in the death -- or is it murder? -- of one of them. An inane publisher's reader summarizes the plot of a tacky hospital romance novel, which ends in a gory murder all too reminiscent of Jack the Ripper. Even a report on a contemporary academic controversy explodes into a scandal of plagiarism, shattered reputations, paranoia, and suicide -- or is

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• Verlag: Ballantine Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0345369599
• ISBN 13: 9780345369598
• Einband: Tapa dura