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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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- Publicado en
- 2004
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- Título
- The American Boy
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- John Robert Taylor
- Editorial
- Harper Perennial
- Publicado en
- 2004
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN10
- 0007109601
- ISBN13
- 9780007109609
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Novela negra & Thriller, Novelas históricas, Novelas de crimen, Amor, Thriller, Familia, Suspense, Asesinatos, Muerte, Inglaterra, Siglo XIX, Sexualidad e intimidad, Gran Bretaña, Literatura inglesa, Matrimonio, Londres, Novela negra histórica, Maestros, Maestro y alumno
- Primera publicación
- 2004
- Título original
- The American Boy
- Calificación
- 3,6 de 5
- Descripción
- 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?