The Secret Life of E. Robert Pendleton - Poche

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Michael Collins - The Secret Life of E. Robert Pendleton.
lt's been a decade since Robert Pendleton published his brilliant debut, and his hopes for a dazzling literary career have faded. Barely hanging on to... Lire la suite
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Résumé

lt's been a decade since Robert Pendleton published his brilliant debut, and his hopes for a dazzling literary career have faded. Barely hanging on to his tenure in literature at Bannockburn College, Pendleton is in despair. Death seems to be the only option, but his suicide fails, halted by the intervention of Adi Wiltshire, a student. During Pendleton's convalescence, Adi discovers a novel hidden in his basement: a quasi-autobiographical story with a gruesome child-murder at its core.
The publication of Scream causes a storm of publicity. The novel is treated as an existential masterpiece - until questions begin to be asked: in particular about the uncanny resemblance between Pendleton's fictional crime and a real, unsolved murder ...

Caractéristiques

  • Date de parution
    01/01/2006
  • Editeur
  • ISBN
    0-7538-2067-6
  • EAN
    9780753820674
  • Format
    Poche
  • Présentation
    Broché
  • Nb. de pages
    437 pages
  • Poids
    0.235 Kg
  • Dimensions
    11,5 cm × 18,0 cm × 2,7 cm

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Biographie de Michael Collins

Michael Collins was born in 1964 in Limerick, Ireland. He is the author of six novels and two collections of short stories. His work has garnered numerous awards, including a Pushcart Award for Best American Short Stories and the Kerry Ingredients Irish Novel of the Year, and he has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the IMPAC Prize. Collins is also an extreme athlete and has won the Last Marathon in the Antarctic and set a record time in winning both the Himalayen 100 Mile Stage Race and the Everest Challenge Marathon.
He has recently completed the 2006 North Pole Marathon.

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