The quick : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 0812993276 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780812993271 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0812993276 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780812993271 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 0812993276 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
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Physical Description:
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523 pages ; 25 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2014]
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | "Lauren Owen's thrilling first novel introduces an utterly beguiling world. London, 1893: James Norbury is a shy would-be poet, newly down from Oxford and confounded by the sinister, labyrinthine city at his doorstep. Taking up lodging with a dissolute young aristocrat, he is introduced to the drawing rooms of high society and finds love in an unexpected quarter. On the cusp of achieving a happiness long denied to him, he vanishes without a trace. In Yorkshire, his sister Charlotte - only in her twenties but already resigned to life as a rural spinster - sets out to find her brother. Her search for answers leads her to one of the country's pre-eminent and mysterious institutions: The Aegolius Club, whose members include the richest, most ambitious men in England. Trying to save James - and herself - from the Club's designs, Charlotte uncovers a secret world at the city's margins populated by unforgettable characters: a female rope walker turned vigilante, a street urchin with a deadly secret, and the chilling "Dr. Knife." As emotionally involving as it is suspenseful, The Quick will establish its young author as one of contemporary fiction's most dazzling talents"-- |
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Genre: | Thrillers (Fiction) Mystery fiction. Suspense fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. |
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