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The Resurrectionist

Inglese · Tascabile

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Informationen zum Autor James Bradley was born in 1967. He has twice been named as one of the Sydney Morning Herald 's Best Young Australian Novelists and has won the Fellowship of Australian Writers Literature Award, the Kathleen Mitchell Literary Award and has been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. He is the author of a collection of poetry called Paper Nautilus and the novels Wrack, The Deep Field and The Resurrectionist . In 2008 The Resurrectionist was chosen as a Richard and Judy Summer Read, becoming a massive bestseller. James lives in Sydney. Klappentext London, 1826. Leaving behind his father's tragic failures, Gabriel Swift arrives to study with Edwin Poll, the greatest of the city's anatomists. It is his chance to find advancement by making a name for himself. But instead he finds himself drawn to his master's nemesis, Lucan, the most powerful of the city's resurrectionists and ruler of its trade in stolen bodies. Dismissed by Mr Poll, Gabriel descends into the violence and corruption of London's underworld, a place where everything and everyone is for sale, and where the taking of a life is easier than it might seem. The Resurrectionist by James Bradley is a sinister and compelling tale of corruption and murder in Victorian London. Zusammenfassung Dismissed by Mr Poll, Gabriel descends into the violence and corruption of London's underworld, a place where everything and everyone is for sale, and where - as Gabriel discovers - the taking of a life is easier than it might seem.

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Autori James Bradley
Editore Faber & Faber
 
Lingue Inglese
Formato Tascabile
Pubblicazione 19.06.2008
 
EAN 9780571232765
ISBN 978-0-571-23276-5
Pagine 352
Dimensioni 127 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
Serie Faber & Faber Paperbacks
Faber & Faber Paperbacks
Categorie Narrativa > Gialli

FICTION / Occult & Supernatural, Horror and supernatural fiction, Disappearance; Gothic; Grave Robbing; Love; Villains, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

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