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Sto caricando le informazioni... Nemesis (Signet) (originale 1990; edizione 1991)di Rosamond Smith
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Oates skriver som alltid bra och denna psykologiska triller under pseudonymen Rosamondh Smith är klart läsvärd. ( ) For a book that was set from September 88-December 89, the writing style was more old fashioned than I expected. The Forest Park Conservatory is a very elite music school with staff & students that are above reproach, or so we think. When young Brendan is raped by the composer in residence, Rolfe Christensen, the entire campus & surrounding community is completely shaken up. Brendan's greatest champion is Maggie Blackburn, a piano instructor. After Rolfe's death by poisoning, the community tries to pin the murder on poor Brendan. A while later, Brendan is implicated in the knife slashing death of one of Rolfe's friends, Nicky Reickmann, also a staff member, & the executor of Rolfe's literary estate. In the end, Maggie discovers who the true murderer is, & it's quite a sordid tale of mental disturbance, seduction, & intrigue that will leave Maggie & Brendan forever changed as they search for a way to put their lives back in some semblance of normality. All in all, it was quite interesting, although not riveting nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
This "mesmerizing" novel about a crime at an elite music school "calls to mind a David Lynch film" (TheNew York Times). Shy piano teacher Maggie Blackburn has selflessly devoted her life and career to her students at the Forest Park Conservatory of Music in an affluent Connecticut suburb. Then a rape shakes the school's refined grounds. The violated young student, Brendan Bauer, is a timid ex-seminarian. The perpetrator, Rolfe Christensen, is the newly appointed and celebrated composer-in-residence who has dazzled the faculty in ways Maggie could never have dreamed of. But when the conservatory's conspiracy to conceal the crime results in Christensen's murder, Bauer is suspected-and Maggie vows to find the real killer. What Maggie soon discovers is that Christensen's reputation-as genius, manipulator, and sexual predator-had preceded him, giving many people a reason to want him dead. But when the murder of another colleague casts additional doubt on Bauer's innocence, Maggie's labyrinthine hunt for a killer turns into more than an investigation. Now it's a liberating obsession with secrets-hers included-as dark and twisted as the crimes themselves. One of today's most prolific and acclaimed literary talents, Joyce Carol Oates is a National Book Award winner, a four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and a #1 New York Times-bestselling author. As Elmore Leonard said, with her psychological suspense novels written under the name Rosamond Smith, "[she] could become the world's Number One mystery writer easily.". Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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