The Bloodstone Papers - A Novel

Zusatztext "A vigorous roman à ghee! reminiscent at turns of Vikram Seth! Zadie Smith and Douglas Coupland." Informationen zum Autor Glen Duncan is the critically acclaimed author of six previous novels, including Death of an Ordinary Man ; I, Lucifer ; and, most recently, The Bloodstone Papers . He lives in London. Klappentext Ross Monroe is a boxing railwayman with a weakness for get-rich-quick schemes. Kate Lyle is a headstrong young woman desperate to escape a nightmarish household. As mid-century India sheds its colonial skin and the shadow of violence rises, these young lovers find themselves facing their own "tryst with destiny."In twenty-first-century London, Owen Monroe is writing this story of his parents' lives in an effort to avoid the problems in his own. But keeping past and present apart isn't easy, and before long Owen is deep in the one story he never wanted to tell.... Zusammenfassung Ross Monroe is a boxing railwayman with a weakness for get-rich-quick schemes. Kate Lyle is a headstrong young woman desperate to escape a nightmarish household. As mid-century India sheds its colonial skin and the shadow of violence rises! these young lovers find themselves facing their own "tryst with destiny." In twenty-first-century London! Owen Monroe is writing this story of his parents' lives in an effort to avoid the problems in his own. But keeping past and present apart isn't easy! and before long Owen is deep in the one story he never wanted to tell....

Product details

• Authors: Glen Duncan
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.07.2008
• EAN: 9780061239670
• ISBN: 978-0-06-123967-0
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 203 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: General, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: Romance / Historical / American, FICTION: Romance / Historical / General, FICTION: Historical / Medieval, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, FICTION: City Life, FICTION: World Literature / American / 21st Century, FICTION: World Literature / American / 20th Century