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RUSTICATION
Charles Palliser is said to have reinvented the gothic novel with his huge international success THE QUINCUNX, published in 1989. This is his first novel in many years.
It is the Christmas of 1863. Richard, seventeen, has returned from Cambridge under a cloud to find his mother and elder sister squabbling in a dilapidated old mansion on a remote part of the southern English coast. The recent death in mysterious circumstances of his father has plunged the family into poverty and forced them to abandon their friends and move here. As a way of coping with the isolation and his grief, Richard starts to write a journal. Distracted by various temptations, he only gradually discovers that his new neighbours are being terrorised by a series of strange and increasingly frightening events. Almost too late he realises that he himself has been ensnared in a concealed trap.
Rustication is an interesting mirror of society in the second half of the 19th century. It highlights what it means to be part of society at that time - or not - and describes related topics such as snobbishness, ostracism, bastardy and the power of gossip. The novel also tantalisingly deals with a wide range of other topics such as drugs, sexual abuse and homosexuality, and honorability, all interwoven in a subtle and faszinating plot.
Before becoming a full-time writer in 1990, Charles Palliser taught literature and creative writing in universities in the UK and the USA. He has published four novels: The Quincunx, The Sensationist, Betrayals and The Unburied. The Quincunx was awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. His fiction has been translated into a dozen languages. He has also written for radio and television.
Rustication is an interesting mirror of society in the second half of the 19th century. It highlights what it means to be part of society at that time - or not - and describes related topics such as snobbishness, ostracism, bastardy and the power of gossip. The novel also tantalisingly deals with a wide range of other topics such as drugs, sexual abuse and homosexuality, and honorability, all interwoven in a subtle and faszinating plot.
Before becoming a full-time writer in 1990, Charles Palliser taught literature and creative writing in universities in the UK and the USA. He has published four novels: The Quincunx, The Sensationist, Betrayals and The Unburied. The Quincunx was awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. His fiction has been translated into a dozen languages. He has also written for radio and television.
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Published 2013-11-04 by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. - New York (USA) |
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Published 2013-11-04 by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. - New York (USA) |