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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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- Pubblicato
- 2004
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- Titolo
- The American Boy
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- John Robert Taylor
- Editore
- Harper Perennial
- Pubblicato
- 2004
- Formato
- In brossura
- ISBN10
- 0007109601
- ISBN13
- 9780007109609
- Serie
- Tag
- Narrativa, Gialli & Thriller, Prosa storica, Gialli, Thriller, Amore, Famiglia, Tensione, Omicidi, Morte, XIX Secolo, Inghilterra, Sessualità e intimità, Gran Bretagna, Letteratura inglese, Gialli Storici, Matrimonio, Londra, Insegnante,professori, Insegnante e Studente
- Prima pubblicazione
- 2004
- Titolo originale
- The American Boy
- Valutazione
- 3,6 su 5
- Descrizione
- 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?