โ Terrell Lawson
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โฆ LIBER โฆ
Jack Glass
โ Scribed by Adam Roberts
- Publisher
- Gollancz
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 266 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0575127635
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
WINNER OF THE BSFA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL
Jack Glass is the murderer. We know this from the start. Yet as this extraordinary novel tells the story of three murders committed by Glass the reader will be surprised to find out that it was Glass who was the killer and how he did it. And by the end of the book our sympathies for the killer are fully engaged.
Riffing on the tropes of crime fiction (the country house murder, the locked room mystery) and imbued with the feel of golden age SF, JACK GLASS is another bravura performance from Roberts. Whatever games he plays with the genre, whatever questions he asks of the reader, Roberts never loses sight of the need to entertain and JACK GLASS has some wonderfully gruesome moments, is built around three gripping HowDunnits and comes with liberal doses of sly humour.
Roberts invites us to have fun and tricks us into thinking about both crime and SF via a beautifully structured novel set in a society whose depiction challanges notions of crime, punishment, power and freedom. It is an extraordinary novel.
Review
"In the tradition of Swift, Orwell and Atwood." Times
About the Author
Adam Roberts is a novelist whose titles include By Light Alone,The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo,Gradisil, New Model Army,Salt, Swiftly, and Yellow Blue Tibia. His work has been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Philip K. Dick Award.
Library : Science Fiction
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780575127654
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