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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780752882635
Edition: New Ed
ISBN: 0752882635
Label: Orion
Manufacturer: Orion
Number Of Pages: 396
Publication Date: January 02, 2008
Publisher: Orion
Studio: Orion
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I enjoyed reading this. I don't normally choose this type of fiction, but I found it most interesting. The descriptions are beautiful, parts read more like a poem, and the simple beauty in parts of this novel, lighten the mostly dark and disturbing storyline.
I would definately recomend this book, as not only a good thriller, but a poetic, and almost philosiphical read.
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I was gripped by the first quarter of this book - it is well written and original as it describes the effect on the hero Joseph and his community as young local girls are found brutally murdered. The contrast between the ordinariness of their everyday lives with the horror of the killings and their affect on the impressionable boy promises much.
Sadly it loses its way. Some reviewers have compared it to Steinbeck, Harper Lee, even J D Salinger. I don't thinks so - those books resonate universality ...
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'I am an exile' states the ill starred narrator of Ellory's homage to To Kill a Mocking Bird. We are in a Southern small town scratching at the door of childhood innocence, privately listening to a narrator weighed down by the grim lessons of the past. Ellory takes care to detail the details of this past, mingling references to the wider world of the Second World War with the glimpses of daily impoverished Southern Life. Joseph Vaughan, the hero of this Richard and Judy recommended read, falls in love with ...
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I had seen A Quiet Belief In Angels at the top of the book chart for a while and decided it was time for me to see what all the fuss was about.
Rarely does a book live up to the hype that has surrounded it but R.J Ellory delivers such a haunting, emotional story that even 5 stars doesn't do it justice.
It starts during the late 1930's in the deep south of America and continues for three more decades. The story is based on a young boy, Joseph Vaughan, and a series of murders that desolates ...
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Actually "New" probably doesn't do the author justice as this is his fifth novel but AQBIA seems to have made a real breakthrough after being highlighted by Richard and Judy. Having loved two of his previous novels, this book fully meets the high standards set by Candlemoth and A Quiet Vendetta (which is my personal favourite!).
It's very hard to categorise Mr Ellory's books; I know they tend to be labelled as crime novels and whilst they certainly work at that level, they're a world away from the formula ...
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