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The Somnambulist de Jonathan Barnes

The Somnambulist: GOLLANCZ S.F.

Autor Jonathan Barnes
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 ian 2008
19th Century London in all its weird and grimy glory. Reality is peeling slowly away like an old circus fly-poster. The clock is ticking towards the City's doom, but it will come in a stranger guise than you, in your wildest literary fever dreams, could ever conceive of . . .

Enter, if you dare, the puzzle-box story of Victorian magician-detective Edward Moon and his silent side-kick the Somnambulist. Follow them as they spiral deep into a world of secret societies, a travelling circus and a pair of the most horrifying agents of chaos ever to wear school uniform. Can Edward defeat his own ghosts and solve the riddle at the dark heart of this extraordinary story?

From the inkwell of master storyteller Jonathan Barnes comes an utterly unique tale of Empire-shaking conspiracy, poetry and madness.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780575082144
ISBN-10: 0575082143
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 155 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
Colecția Gollancz
Seria GOLLANCZ S.F.

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Recenzii

“This superb debut from British author Barnes raises the bar for historical thrillers.” — Publishers Weekly
“Strange, outrageous, and wonderful … There is much that is strange, magical, and darkly hilarious about this book … An original and monumentally inventive piece of work by a writer still in his 20s. Barnes seems to leave himself room for a sequel—a consummation devoutly to be wished.” — Washington Post
“Old school entertainment in the penny-dreadful tradition that almost succeeds in being as sublime as it is ridiculous.” — Entertainment Weekly
“Magical, dark, beautifully odd–and utterly compelling–this is an astonishing debut.” — Michael Marshall, author of The Intruders
“Sneaky, cheeky, and dark in the best possible way, Jonathan Barnes’ massively entertaining THE SOMNAMBULIST manages to make the familiar daringly unfamiliar. I enjoyed the heck out of this novel.” — Jeff Vandermeer
“Macabre wit and stylistic panache. Parliament should immediately pass a law requiring Barnes to write a sequel.” — James Morrow, author of The Last Witchfinder and The Philosopher’s Apprentice
“A comic extravaganza, deftly plotted, fiendishly clever, and wonderfully funny. . . . One of the classiest entertainments I’ve read.” — Christopher Bram, author of Exiles in America
“[B]rilliant...Barnes crafts one of the finest first novels of the young century...Truly surprising plot twists and red herrings abound.” — Austin Chronicle
“A cheeky tale...salvaged from the sensationalist novels of the past three centuries....it doesn’t take an English-lit wonk to appreciate the antic mind that would name two of the grotesquely deformed prostitutes in Mrs. Puggsley’s brothel after virginal victims of Count Dracula.” — New York Times
“A first novel that shows all the polish and poise of a master storyteller….By turns disquieting, funny, and taunting.” — St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Anyone who loves a good, kind of creepy thriller most likely will find something to love in [these] pages…. Thoroughly enjoyable.” — Kansas City Star
“The Somnambulist is not your great-grandfather’s mystery yarn.” — Richmond Times-Dispatch

Notă biografică

Jonathan Barnes, author of the critically acclaimed novel The Somnambulist, graduated from Oxford University with a first in English literature. He reviews for the Times Literary Supplement and lives in London.