Rustication: A Novel - Hardcover

Palliser, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393088723 ISBN 13: 9780393088724

Verlag: W W NORTON & CO, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

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).

Über diesen Titel

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: W W NORTON & CO
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0393088723
• ISBN 13: 9780393088724
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 327
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Buchpark GmbH; gpsr@buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Deutschland