- Fiction, Murderers, Fiction, psychological, London (england), fiction
Convinced that he is destined for great wealth, power, and influence, Edward Glyver will do anything to reclaim a prize that is rightfully his, including a showdown with his rival, poet-criminal Phoebus Rainsford Daunt.
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Classical in form, grave, contemporary and raw.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- rawmeticulous
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Michael Cox
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 703
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780393062038
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Michael Cox was born in Wellingborough in 1948, and grew up in Northamptonshire where his parents worked in the shoe industry. Bed-bound at three with a prolonged ear infection, he learnt to read. A key moment in Cox's life occured when, staying with his grandparents, he saw from a window that the neighbours were burying fine Victorian books – well bound, lavishly tooled – as they thought such things harboured disease. He and his grandparents saved them, and he was ever after absorbed in them, especially the Arabian Nights tales. Fiction became a passion, and from Wellingborough Grammar School he went to St Catharines College, Cambridge where an academic career looked likely until he was ask
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