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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
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 2004
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- Titre
- The American Boy
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- John Robert Taylor
- Éditeur
- Harper Perennial
- Publié
- 2004
- Format
- souple
- ISBN10
- 0007109601
- ISBN13
- 9780007109609
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Polars & Thrillers, Romans historiques, Polars, Amour, Thriller, Famille, Suspense, Meurtres, Mort, Angleterre, 19e siècle, Sexualité et intimité, Grande-Bretagne, Littérature anglaise, Mariage, Londres, Polars historiques, Enseignante, professeurs, Enseignant et élève
- Première publication
- 2004
- Titre original
- The American Boy
- Évaluation
- 3,6 sur 5
- Description
- 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?