- Museums, Fiction, Employees
The darkest, most twisted novel yet from the author of Timoleon Vieta Come Home. In a room above a bizarre German museum, and far from the prying eyes of strangers, lives in Old Man.
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Contemporary, bleak, classical in form and plot-driven.
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Dan Rhodes
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 313
- Publisher
- Canongate
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781847675293
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