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Interweaving real and fictional elements, The American Boy is a major new literary historical crime novel in the tradition of An Instance of the Fingerpost and Possession. England 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the boy's sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Drawn to Frant's beautiful, unhappy mother, Thomas becomes caught up in her family's twisted intrigues. Then a brutal crime is committed, with consequences that threaten to destroy Thomas and all that he has come to hold dear. Despite his efforts, Shield is caught up in a deadly tangle of sex, money, murder and lies -- a tangle that grips him tighter even as he tries to escape from it. And what of the strange American child, at the heart of these macabre events, yet mysterious -- what is the secret of the boy named Edgar Allen Poe?
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The American Boy, John Robert Taylor
- Język
- Rok wydania
- 2004
- Oprawa
- (miękka)
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- Tytuł
- The American Boy
- Język
- angielski
- Autorzy
- John Robert Taylor
- Wydawca
- Harper Perennial
- Rok wydania
- 2004
- Oprawa
- miękka
- ISBN10
- 0007109601
- ISBN13
- 9780007109609
- Seria
- Kategorie
- Tagi
- Kryminały & Sensacja, Miłość, Rodzina, Z dreszczykiem, Morderstwa, Śmierć, XIX wiek, Anglia, Seksualność & Intymność, Wielka Brytania, Literatura angielska, Małżeństwo, Londyn, Nauczyciele, Nauczyciel i uczeń
- Pierwsze wydanie
- 2004
- Oryginalna nazwa
- The American Boy
- Ocena
- 3,6 z 5
- Opis
- Interweaving real and fictional elements, The American Boy is a major new literary historical crime novel in the tradition of An Instance of the Fingerpost and Possession. England 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the boy's sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Drawn to Frant's beautiful, unhappy mother, Thomas becomes caught up in her family's twisted intrigues. Then a brutal crime is committed, with consequences that threaten to destroy Thomas and all that he has come to hold dear. Despite his efforts, Shield is caught up in a deadly tangle of sex, money, murder and lies -- a tangle that grips him tighter even as he tries to escape from it. And what of the strange American child, at the heart of these macabre events, yet mysterious -- what is the secret of the boy named Edgar Allen Poe?