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The Thirteenth Tale
de Setterfield, Diane
- Usado
- as new
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- As New/Not Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0752875736
- ISBN 13
- 9780752875736
- Librería
-
Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States
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Sobre este artículo
London: Orion Books, 2006. Book. As New. Soft cover. Advance Reader's Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SOFTCOVER, stiff color illus. wraps. Uncorrected Manuscript Proof. 400 pp. Text block edges slightly tanned, otherwise as issued..
Sinopsis
The Thirteenth Tale is a gothic suspense novel published in 2006. It is Diane Setterfield's debut novel.
Reseñas
El Aug 26 2014, un lector dijo:
Suspenseful and beautifully written, this is a tale that will hold your attention. Just when you think you know where the story is heading, a twist occurs that throws you off course. One of the most mesmerizing books I have read this summer!
El Jan 29 2009, Killswan dijo:
This novel is a literary tribute by the author to gothic and romantic novels enjoyed in her own English girlhood -- especially JAYNE EYRE. Pick any five consecutive sentences of THE THIRTEENTH TALE and you may find at most one flat, ordinary formulation. This is "poetry" or poetic prose as Heidegger saw it: "thickening" (German Dichtung). That is, ordinary words and experiences carry weight beyond what most writers make language bear. No glossary needed for this tale of Yorkshire. Just bring your heart. ***
Can two depressingly dysfunctional generations of the Angelfield family finally spawn normal offspring? Must twin girls neglected by their parents remain weird for life? The novel asks why does it take Margaret Lea, an outsider biographer, whose twin had died at birth, to tell when Britain's greatest novelist, Vida Winter, is lying about her family. "Trust but verify" is Margaret's model and it helps her both unravel the Angelfields and their tragedy and come to terms with herself and her parents. ***
THE THIRTEENTH TALE makes a case that the classic way to tell a tale (especially when the yarn is deliberately gothic and romantic) is always the best way: with a beginning which assumes nothing, a middle which blends the elements into fiendishly complex puzzles, enigmas and terrors, and a brief end and coda in which all is explained. Does that also sound like the best kind of detective story? ***
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Detalles
- Librería
- Saucony Book Shop
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 048586
- Título
- The Thirteenth Tale
- Autor
- Setterfield, Diane
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Not Issued
- Edición
- Advance Reader's Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0752875736
- ISBN 13
- 9780752875736
- Editorial
- Orion Books
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 2006
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
Saucony Book Shop
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
Kutztown, Pennsylvania
Sobre Saucony Book Shop
The Saucony Book Shop, located in the heart of scenic rural Berks County, epicenter of Pennsylvania German folk culture (our shop specialty), offers a full range of gently used, rare, and antiquarian books, with many volumes of scholarly merit and an unabashed emphasis on the quaint, the curious, and the utterly obscure. We make no attempt to be a general-service book shop. Our inventory is highly selective, individually chosen from among the hundreds of thousands of books to which we have access annually at auctions, library and estate sales, and through individual scouts and vendors. We do not handle material that does not meet our expectations in terms of condition or interest to our specialized, idiosyncratic customers. Despite maintaining a browsing inventory of more than 15,000 volumes, we have minimized our carbon footprint by maintaining our entire operation in a cozy ca. 1890 barn and lean-to adjacent to an historic creamery in rural Maxatawny Township. Our shop is available for browsing by appointment and occasionally, in temperate weather, by chance, so email or call ahead to peruse the eclectic selection gracing our shelves, or ask our ferociously over-read staff for recommendations. Selling antiquarian books of merit since 1981. Full search and appraisal services; always keenly interested in purchasing quality used books, whether by the piece or by the bushel. Thanks for reading about us! Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
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