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Chilling, haunting, and utterly original, DROOD is Dan Simmons at his powerful best.
Little Brown and Company
February 2009
On Sale: February 9, 2009
Featuring: Charles Dickens
784 pages
ISBN: 0316007021
EAN: 9780316007023
Hardcover
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Fiction | Mystery Historical
On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with
his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens--at the
height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and
successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history
of the world--hurtled into a disaster that changed his life
forever. Did Dickens begin living a dark double life after the
accident? Were his nightly forays into the worst slums of
London and his deepening obsession with corpses, crypts,
murder, opium dens, the use of lime pits to dissolve
bodies, and a hidden subterranean London mere
research . . . or something more terrifying? Just as he did in The Terror, Dan Simmons draws impeccably
from history to create a gloriously engaging and terrifying
narrative. Based on the historical details of Charles
Dickens's life and narrated by Wilkie Collins (Dickens's
friend, frequent collaborator, and Salieri-style secret
rival), DROOD explores the still-unsolved mysteries of the
famous author's last years and may provide the key to
Dickens's final, unfinished work: The Mystery of Edwin
Drood.
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1 comment posted.
Re: Drood
I am intrigued by the content of this book and very weel may read it. Kudos to Mr. Simmons for picking a particularly interesting subject.
(Dawn Raymer 6:37am April 21, 2009)
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