Grottesco
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788845917653 (8845917657)
Publish date: 2003
Publisher: Adelphi
Pages no: 214
Edition language: Italian
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Adult Fiction,
Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Horror,
Gothic,
Dark
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I quite liked this book. With the given title, and all the descriptions of spooky and horror I actually expected more of a Gothic horror story than this mild mystery story set in an old British manor.Of course, the twist is that the narrator is comatose, and is relating events both from memory and f...
Rating deleted. I can't in good conscience keep ratings for books by any of the 204 writers who signed the letter protesting the award for courage PEN gave to Charlie Hebdo. Such willful obtuseness by writers, of all people, toward freedom of expression is very troubling.