The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps [electronic resource]
Faber, Michel2008
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What she finds is a mystery involving a long-hidden murder, a man with big hands, a fragile manuscript in a bottle, and a rather attractive dog called Hadrian. Faber's dazzling novella takes us up the 199 steps in Whitby that link the 21st century with the ruins of the past. Equal and indissoluble parts thriller, romance, historical/ghost story and meditation on the nature of sincerity, this is an ingenious literary page-turner. Atmospheric photographs complement the text beautifully.This book, like Henry James's ‘The Turn of the Screw’, deploys a masterful sense of ambiguity, outstanding narrative power, works on many levels and, as always with Faber's writing, is elegant, thought-provoking, distinctive and compelling.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Canongate Books, 2008
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1 online resource (1 text file)
ISBN:
9781847674029
Language:
English
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BRN:
3654240