The Devil's Paintbrush: Jake Arnott - Softcover

Arnott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340922710 ISBN 13: 9780340922712

Verlag: Hachette Collections, 2017

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Críticas:

Arnott is clearly having fun here...So to combine that with how the necessity to be good - to be a hero - can be as suffocating a pressure as battling with occultist demons makes The Devil's Paintbrush a fine book * Metro * Arnott's great leap forward...Macdonald's predicament is sympathetically examined and Crowley's monstrous drive is brilliantly rendered...it is his best [novel] * The Herald * A great read, full of compassion, humour and riveting detail. * Sunday Express * One of the many pleasures of this skilful book is the maintenance of suspense...Arnott does not ask us to choose between [Crowley and Macdonald] - but much of the moral force of this excellent book lies in his demonstration that there is, nonetheless, a choice to be made. * Independent * A consummate performance...a virtuoso work of near history, with the occasional in-joke thrown in for good measure...immensely enjoyable * Guardian * Brilliantly expansive and original * Daily Mirror *

Reseña del editor:

A fascinating, unusual and seductive historical novel by the bestselling author of The Long Firm. In a Parisian restaurant, Aleister Crowley, the notorious occultist, chances on Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald: once one of the greatest heroes of the British Empire, now facing ruin in a shocking scandal - and vulnerable to Crowley's curious offer of help. An extraordinary night of transgression and revelation ensues . . . Probing beneath the surface of Victorian conformity, this is an enthralling tale of imperialism, sexuality and the nature of belief, which captures a world on the brink of a brutal new era.

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• Verlag: Hachette Collections
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0340922710
• ISBN 13: 9780340922712
• Einband: Paperback
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304