An unpardonable crime
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- ISBN: 1401301029 :
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Physical Description:
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485 p. ; 24 cm. - Publisher: London, Eng. : Flamingo, c2004.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Also published as "The American Boy". |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Creston Public Library. (Show preferred library)
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Creston Public Library | MYS TAY (Text) | CPL060459 | Mystery | Volume hold | Available | - |
Dawson Creek Municipal Public Library | F TAY (Text) | DCL135735 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
Interweaving real and fictional elements, Edgar Allan Poe is the American boy, a child standing on the edge of mysteries. In 1819 two Americans arrive in London, and soon afterwards a bank collapses. A man is found dead and horribly mutilated on a building site. A heiress flirts with her inferiors. A poor schoolmaster struggles to understand what is happening before it destroys him and those he loves. But the truth, like the youthful Poe himself, has its origins in the new world as well as the old. The American Boy is a 21st-century novel with a 19th-century voice. It is both a multi-layered literary murder mystery and a love story, its setting ranging from the coal-scented urban jungle of late Regency London to the stark winter landscapes of rural Gloucestershire. And at its centre is the boy who does not really belong anywhere, an actor who never learns the significance of his part.