- Fiction, Literature, Violence, Teenage boys
"Listen. The Sanctuary of the Redeemers on Shotover Scarp is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes on there and less sanctuary."The Sanctuary of the Redeemers is a vast and desolate place – a place without joy or hope.
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Classical in form, bleak, contemporary and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
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About the book
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 439
- Publisher
- Penguin Audio, Dutton, Ed. Nord
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English, Italian
- ISBN
- 9780141042374
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Paul Hoffman (born 1953) is an author, who wrote the Left Hand of God trilogy. He studied English at New College, Oxford. Paul Hoffman wrote the script for the 1998 vampire film The Wisdom of Crocodiles with Jude Law, Timothy Spall and Elina Löwensohn. A portion of his first novel was loosely based on the film of the same name. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hoffman_(English_writer)
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