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Post by dem bones on Mar 9, 2009 11:09:47 GMT
James Bradley - The Resurrectionist (Faber & Faber, 2007) Blurb Sometimes the worst prisons we build are not of stone ...
Leaving behind his father's tragic failures, Gabriel Swift arrives in London in 1826 to study with Edwin Poll, the great anatomist. But he finds himself drawn to his master's nemesis, Lucan, the most powerful of the city's resurrectionists and governor of its trade in stolen bodies. Dismissed by Poll, Gabriel is pulled into the sinister and mysterious underworld of Georgian London — and must make a journey that will change his life forever.
`A classically claustrophobic Gothic chiller.' - Daily Telegraph
An earthy, brooding Gothic horror ... Gory at times, philosophical at others, this is atmospheric stuff.' - Big Issue Struck it pretty lucky down Spitalfields and Cheshire Street markets yesterday, with three film tie-ins i didn't know existed including Night Must Fall and the terrifying Watch It, Sailor!, a ph*t*b*cket unfriendly Confessions ..... ( Film Extra - yeah, that one), something called City Of The Dead by Herb Leiberman ("I became afraid - literally afraid to turn the page" - New York Times. Bet it's dead gurly), a Michael Moorcoock twangers & espionage job, Deborah Shines Haunting Ghost Stories, etc., etc., and this. Body-snatchers have long been a fascination of mine so i'd doubtless have bought this anyhow, but the 'Richard & Judy's Summer Read' endorsement that so winningly disfigures the cover made it the surest sure thing. A little unnerved by the mention of The Resurrectionist straying into "philosophical" territory as that usually means i'll struggle to understand much of it, so has anyone had the pleasure of Mr. Bradley's novel?
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