The Corset
Autor Laura Purcellen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 mai 2019
O celulă rece în închisoarea Oakgate. O adolescentă palidă, cu degetele înțepate de ac, așteaptă spânzurătoarea. Ruth Butterham nu neagă crima, dar explicația ei sfidează rațiunea: ea susține că a ucis folosind doar ața și acul, transpunându-și ura în cusăturile corsetelor pe care le confecționa. Notăm cu interes cum Laura Purcell construiește o tensiune insuportabilă între raționalismul Dorotheei Truelove și mărturia macabră a deținutei. Dorothea crede în știință și în caritate. Ruth crede în blesteme țesute în mătase. Putem afirma că acest roman este o explorare viscerală a puterii și a neputinței feminine în epoca victoriană. Ritmul este sacadat, asemeni unei inimi care bate prea repede în întuneric. Stilul are ceva din proza lui Kim Taylor Blakemore, fără să fie o imitație — în timp ce The Companion se concentrează pe secretele unei reședințe izolate, Purcell mută groaza în însăși textura hainelor pe care le purtăm. The Corset continuă tradiția atmosferei claustrofobice din The Silent Companions și anticipează temele din Bone China, consolidând reputația autoarei de maestru al goticului modern. Este o poveste despre firele invizibile care leagă două femei din lumi opuse, unde fiecare punct de cusătură poate însemna o condamnare.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1408889528
Pagini: 394
Dimensiuni: 128 x 194 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Raven Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recomandăm această carte celor care caută un thriller istoric întunecat, unde granița dintre supranatural și nebunie este constant neclară. Cititorul va câștiga o experiență de lectură intensă, marcată de o atmosferă victoriană autentică și de o structură narativă ce menține incertitudinea până la final. Este alegerea perfectă pentru fanii romanelor care combină detaliul istoric riguros cu suspansul psihologic rafinat.
Descriere
'The Corset is a contender for my Book of the Year. Beautifully written, intricately plotted, a masterpiece' Sarah Hilary
Is prisoner Ruth Butterham mad or a murderer? Victim or villain?
Dorothea Truelove is young, wealthy and beautiful. Ruth Butterham is young, poor and awaiting trial for murder.
When Dorothea's charitable work leads her to Oakgate Prison, she finds herself drawn to Ruth, a teenage seamstress - and self-confessed murderess - who nurses a dark and uncanny secret. A secret that is leading her straight to the gallows. As Ruth reveals her disturbing past to Dorothea, the fates of these two women entwine, and with every revelation, a new layer of doubt is cast...
Can Ruth be trusted? Is she mad, or a murderer?
*Laura Purcell's HOUSE OF SPLINTERS is available to preorder now*
Recenzii
The Silent Companions was a chillingly note-perfect take on Victorian gothic and [Purcell] makes a brilliant return to the genre with this much-anticipated tale ... Heart-pounding . A classic Victorian tale of murder most foul, twisted with a curious supernatural thread
Laura is a masterful writer, her deliciously gothic stories so skilfully woven that you can't get them out of your head even if you wanted to
The Corset [sent] chills shooting down my spine ... Nods to the classic gothic novel and Sarah Waters's Affinity
This gothic chiller casts an addictive spell
Intricate, atmospheric and chilling - with a wonderfully dark premise at its heart
[A] thrilling, chilling Gothic tale . [A] deliciously dark mystery
Chilling ... All but the most cynical will find it hard to stop turning the pages
The Silent Companions was a gothic masterpiece and The Corset follows with confidence ... 16-year-old Ruth is on trial for murder but finds herself on the receiving end of Dorothea Truelove's charitable ministrations ... their joint narrative twists and turns, leading readers to the most haunting of endings
Deliciously creepy and atmospheric with a gripping plot, this book will disturb your sleep. And I didn't see THAT ending coming
Purcell's tale brilliantly captures the restricted lives of Victorian women, while pitting magical thinking against scientific rationale
The Corset is a contender for my Book of the Year. Ruth and Dorothea will live in my mind for a long time. Beautifully written, intricately plotted, a masterpiece
She's done it again. More macabre magnificence from Laura Purcell - intricately stitched together like one of seamstress Ruth's terrifying creations. The Corset will have you crushed within its vice. Brilliant'
An intriguing premise deftly executed, The Corset is genuinely thrilling
A romping read with a deliciously dark conceit at its centre. Reminded me of Alias Grace. A worthy successor to The Silent Companions
With the skill of a born story teller Laura Purcell has crafted a tale as intricate and flawless as Ruth's stitches. By turns horrifying and humorous, The Corset is a darkly compelling, unsettling and fascinating book, where pseudo-science meets needlework in the most chilling and unexpected ways ... The Corset is the very best kind of gothic fiction. Reminiscent of Sarah Waters and Margaret Atwood, but uniquely and unmistakably Laura Purcell
The Corset is a sharp-edged, emotionally freighted mystery, rooted in the pitch-black darkness of Victorian poverty. An intriguing, page-turning gothic tale of murder and the supernatural
Praise for The Silent Companions: 'A sinister slice of Victorian gothic . Creepy and page-turning
A perfect read for a winter night . An intriguing, nuanced and genuinely eerie slice of Victorian gothic
This intriguingly plotted novel is the full-blown gothic, maintaining throughout an unsettling claustrophobic atmosphere mixed with some unusual historical detail
The nights are drawing in, low mists hang over the ground. What you really need is something to terrify the bejeezus out of you. And Laura Purcell has nailed it with a story that conjures up Susan Hill's The Woman in Black, Henry James's The Turn of The Screw and a little bit of Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Irresistibly creepy, this romps along, Purcell turning her screws with skill. It's what crumpets and dismal afternoons were made for