Rustication: A Novel - Softcover

Palliser, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393349810 ISBN 13: 9780393349818

Verlag: Norton, 2014

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One Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year-a vertiginous gothic masterpiece from the best-selling author of The Quincunx.

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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.

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One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year―a vertiginous gothic masterpiece from the best-selling author of The Quincunx.

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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).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Norton
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0393349810
• ISBN 13: 9780393349818
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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