· PUBLISHERS WEEKLY SEP 2, Palliser juxtaposes Gothic melodrama, a metafictional frame, a vividly unreliable narrator, and a roiling mix of mysteries in this provocative Victorian thriller, his first novel since 's The Unburied. Earthier in milieu and more rollicking in tone than The Unburied or his classic, The Quincunx, Rustication showcases the author's originality, /5(7). · Charles Palliser's work has been hailed as "so compulsively absorbing that reality disappears" (New York Times). Since his extraordinary debut, The Quincunx, his works have sold over one million copies worldwide. With his novel, Rustication, he returns to the town of Thurchester, which he evoked so hauntingly in The bltadwin.ru: Norton, W. W. Company, Inc. It really takes a novelist who knows what he or she is doing to have not just a protagonist but a whole cast of characters as disagreeable as in RUSTICATION, but Palliser knows that he can spin his mystery well enough so that despite the overwhelming selfishness and hypocrisy of Richard's family and his neighbors, readers will be impelled to find out what happens/5().
Rustication Charles Palliser. Although graphic and explicit at times this is nevertheless a compelling Victorian gothic style novel. A gloomy winter countryside is the atmospheric setting for a story of increasing intrigue and suspicions with lurid letters and gruesome acts culminating in a particularly nasty murder. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Rustication by Charles Palliser (, Hardcover) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! Rustication Charles Palliser. Norton, $ (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. PODCAST. PW Radio Show 46; ARTICLES. A Lonely and Hostile Place: PW Talks with Charles.
Charles Palliser has published five works of fiction including the historical novels The Quincunx () and The Unburied (). His latest novel is Rustication (November, ). It takes the form of the diary of a 17 year old writing in the s: His family have suddenly lost everything and he joins them in a remote and unfriendly village on the South Coast. Charles Palliser's work has been hailed as "so compulsively absorbing that reality disappears" (New York Times). Since his extraordinary debut, The Quincunx, his works have sold over one million copies worldwide. With his new novel, Rustication, he returns to the town of Thurchester, which he evoked so hauntingly in The Unburied. The novel is presented as a historical true-crime, in the form of a diary from kept by a young man, Richard Shenstone, who finds himself "rusticated" – expelled from Cambridge for an.
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