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Interweaving real and fictional elements, The American Boy is a major new literary historical crime novel in the tradition of An Instance of the Fingerpost and Possession. England 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the boy's sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Drawn to Frant's beautiful, unhappy mother, Thomas becomes caught up in her family's twisted intrigues. Then a brutal crime is committed, with consequences that threaten to destroy Thomas and all that he has come to hold dear. Despite his efforts, Shield is caught up in a deadly tangle of sex, money, murder and lies -- a tangle that grips him tighter even as he tries to escape from it. And what of the strange American child, at the heart of these macabre events, yet mysterious -- what is the secret of the boy named Edgar Allen Poe?
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The American Boy, John Robert Taylor
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- Rok vydání
- 2004
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- Titul
- The American Boy
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- John Robert Taylor
- Vydavatel
- Harper Perennial
- Rok vydání
- 2004
- Vazba
- měkká
- ISBN10
- 0007109601
- ISBN13
- 9780007109609
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletrie, Detektivky & Thriller, Historické romány, Detektivky, Láska, Thrillery, Rodina, Napětí, Vraždy, Úmrtí, Anglie, 19. století, Sexualita & Intimita, Velká Británie, Anglická literatura, Manželství, Londýn, Historické detektivky, Učitelé, učitelky, Učitel a žák
- První vydání
- 2004
- Původní název
- The American Boy
- Hodnocení
- 3,6 z 5
- Anotace
- Interweaving real and fictional elements, The American Boy is a major new literary historical crime novel in the tradition of An Instance of the Fingerpost and Possession. England 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the boy's sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Drawn to Frant's beautiful, unhappy mother, Thomas becomes caught up in her family's twisted intrigues. Then a brutal crime is committed, with consequences that threaten to destroy Thomas and all that he has come to hold dear. Despite his efforts, Shield is caught up in a deadly tangle of sex, money, murder and lies -- a tangle that grips him tighter even as he tries to escape from it. And what of the strange American child, at the heart of these macabre events, yet mysterious -- what is the secret of the boy named Edgar Allen Poe?