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Maria McCann - As Meat Loves Salt

As Meat Loves Salt (Könyv)

Író:
Maria McCann;

Kategória:
Könyv > Idegen nyelvű > Egyéb idegen nyelvű;
2 180 Ft
(Eredeti ár: 2 180 Ft)
Megtakarítás: 0%
Szállítás: Bizonytalan



Tartalom:


A sensational tale of obsession and murder, from a wonderful new English writer. 'An outstanding novel, fresh and unusual [with] all the dirt, stink, rasp and flavour of the time.' Daily Telegraph Transplant Othello to the tumult of a country in social and political flux and en route to regicide - England in the 1640s - and render him uncertain about his sexuality, and you have the makings of Jacob Cullen, one of the most commanding characters in contemporary writing. As the book opens, Jacob is an educated, vigorous and dauntingly strong manservant in a Royalist household, who has begun to imbibe god-fearing revolutionary pamphlets. He is on the brink of marriage to his virginal sweetheart, but is unsure of his emotional needs, and in possession of a boiling point he reaches all too often. He is also, we learn, fearful of being identified as the murderer of a local boy, and a potential nemesis arrives on the very day of his wedding feast, prompting the first of a series of impetuous, temper-fuelled bad decisions: Jacob flees, dragging his new wife and one of his brothers with him. Thereafter he proceeds to wreak havoc on the lives of others but mostly on his own fortunes - as a servant, a husband, a brother, a soldier, and, critically, as friend, co-conspirator and lover of another man disaffected by the lurch from freedom to tyranny now apparent in Cromwell's New Model Army. To step outside the law, outside the state, outside the established and natural order of things seems to supply the only prospect of happiness ...


Kiadás éve: 2001
Oldalak száma: 566 oldal
Kötésmód: fűzve
ISBN: 9780156012263
EAN: 9780156012263





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