A Method Actor's Guide to Jekyll and Hyde
β Scribed by MacNeil, Kevin
- Book ID
- 109153700
- Publisher
- Birlinn
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 297 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
MacNeil's novel, though drawing on Stevenson's novella, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, is never slavishly derivative. His Method Actor's Guide is, in its finest glinting moments, that "whole new thing" of which Hemingway wrote, and from first to last an enticing read' β Tom Adair, The Scotsman'A phenomenally good novel ... brilliant, touching, funny and clever' β Roger Hutchinson, West Highland Free PressAfter a bike crash in a foggy Edinburgh, troubled young actor Robert Lewis wakes to find that life has changed for the darker. And the weirder. He's still a deceitful egoist but now life seems to be deceiving and manipulating him. Everything that can go wrong is going wrong. He's losing control of his love life, his starring role in a new adaptation of Jekyll and Hyde, and, quite possibly, his mind. A Method Actor's Guide to Jekyll and Hyde is a dark, maniacal thriller that explores many kinds of duality - individual, social and cultural, and is a...
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