基本信息出版社：HarperPerennial
页码：512 页
出版日期：2008年02月
ISBN：0007266731
条形码：9780007266739
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：The Perennial Collection

内容简介 Interweaving real and fictional elements, 'The American Boy' is a major literary historical crime novel in the tradition of 'An Instance of the Fingerpost' and 'Possession'. Repackaged as part of the Perennial fiction promotion. 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 dearly value. Despite his efforts, Shield is caught up in a deadly tangle of sex, money, murder and lies -- a tangle that grips him even tighter as he tries to escape from it. And what of the strange American child, at the heart of these macabre events -- what is the secret of the boy named Edgar Allan Poe?
作者简介 Andrew Taylor is the award-winning author of a number of crime novels, including the Dougal series, the Lydmouth books and The Barred Window. He and his wife live with their children in the Forest of Dean. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Daily Telegraph
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Guardian
'Full of period colour and unexpected twists.' --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Patricia Craig, Times Literary Supplement, 2003
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Michael Carlson, The Spectator, 2003
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