The Resurrectionist
trade 1st edition paperback, fine
trade 1st edition paperback, fine
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Format: papier
ISBN:
9780571232765 (571232760)
Publish date: 19 czerwca 2008
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Pages no: 335
Edition language: English
I kind of enjoyed this, but I'm not sure why - perhaps it's just my obsession with Victorian gothic. It's quite well-written, but relentlessly depressing. The ending was quite good I thought - at least it didn't turn into the "happy ever after" it was threatening to become. This was apparently one o...
I don't care what anyone says, this book is right up there with my favourites. The philosophical content and the main character's trauma surrounding the whole good-and-bad aspects of life were beautiful. I paid £7 for this book because some overpriced spanish guy didn't understand the meaning of a s...
The story of one man's descent into a nightmare of self-loathing in which his humanity and compassion is sucked out of him. The novel has a brilliant sense of time and place with excellent moody atmospheric writing The slippery, shifting nature of the storyline with its first person narrative and pr...
Great read!!