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Hawksmoor
(Hardcover, 1986)
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Author: Peter Ackroyd
In Peter Ackroyd's London-based literary suspense novel, Nicholas Hawksmoor, a 20th-century detectiv...
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0060155035
ISBN-13: 9780060155032
Jan 1986
Publisher: Harpercollins
Edition: 1
Language: English |
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Synopsis
In Peter Ackroyd's London-based literary suspense novel, Nicholas Hawksmoor, a 20th-century detective (and the namesake of an 18th-century London architect) stalks another architect of that period, Nicholas Dyer--an actual person, an apprentice to Christopher Wren and, possibly, a diabolical killer. When he tries to solve a series of macabre murders that took place in the churches Dyer designed, Hawksmoor begins to take on some of the personality traits of the man he is hunting. As the narrative swings back and forth between the 18th and 20th centuries, Ackroyd delves into the problem of evil, and into the interrelationships between reality and fiction. HAWKSMOOR, published in 1985, was a winner of both the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize.
Industry Reviews
"HAWKSMOOR is a witty and macabre work of the imagination, intricately plotted, obsessive in its much-reiterated concerns with mankind's fallen nature. It is less a novel in the conventional sense of the word (in which, for instance, human relationships and their development are of central importance) than a highly idiosyncratic treatise, or testament, on the subject of evil....Mr. Ackroyd's sense of drama is fiercest when it involves ideas rather than people. Indeed, HAWKSMOOR is primarily a novel of ideas, a spirited debate..... Mr. Ackroyd is a virtuoso writer whose prose is a continual pleasure to read....HAWKSMOOR is an unfailingly intelligent work of the imagination, a worthy counterpart in fiction to Mr. Ackroyd's much-acclaimed biography of Eliot. It will be interesting to see what this gifted and ambitious English writer will embark upon next."
New York Times Book Review - Joyce Carol Oates (01/19/1986)
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