The Necropolis Railway

Martin, Andrew

ISBN 10: 0156030683 / ISBN 13: 9780156030687

Verlag: Harper Paperbacks, 2007

Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers G0156030683I4N10

Inhaltsangabe:

Bright and ambitious, young Jim Stringer moves from the English countryside to London deter- mined to become a railway man. It is 1903, the dawn of the Edwardian age, when steam runs the nation and the railways drive progress. Jim can’t believe his luck to have gotten his foot in the door at South East Railway, run out of Waterloo Station. He finds, however, that his duties involve a graveyard shift, literally—a railway line that takes coffins from London morgues to the gigantic new cemeteries being dug in the city’s outskirts. He also learns that his predecessor had disappeared and that his coworkers seem to have formed an instant loathing for him. Forced to live by his wits and to arrive at his own deductions—assisted by his landlady, for whom he falls— he tries to figure out what is going on before he is issued a one-way ticket on the Necropolis Railway.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

ANDREW MARTIN was a Spectator (London) Young Writer of the Year and has written for the Guardian , the Daily Telegraph , and Granta . He has a weekly column in the New Statesman . He lives in London.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Necropolis Railway
Verlag: Harper Paperbacks
Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket