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S'està carregant… The Pale Blue Eye: A Novel (edició 2007)de Louis Bayard (Autor)
Informació de l'obraThe Pale Blue Eye de Louis Bayard
  
No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.   ) harishwriter | Oct 12, 2023 |  ) maria.michalska | Mar 14, 2023 | This is all a convoluted way of saying that although I first learnt of Louis Bayard and his novel “The Pale Blue Eye” thanks to the publicity generated by the eponymous Netflix movie, I haven’t watched the film. I have, however, bought and read the book. And what an enjoyable experience it turned out to be. The protagonist and narrator of Bayard’s novel is one Augustus Landor, an ex-New York detective who, in the fall of 1830, is unwillingly drawn out of his grumpy retirement to investigate a horrific crime at the elite West Point Academy. The victim, a young cadet, apparently died by suicide but, following his death, someone ripped out his heart, raising the spectre of either murder or occult ritual or both. Alas, this will not be the last of these dark desecrations, and Landor finds himself under mounting pressure to solve the mystery which threatens to dismantle the Academy. He enlists an unlikely companion to help him navigate the claustrophobic confines of the Academy. This is none other than the young Edgar Allan Poe, a cadet with literary ambitions who also turns out to be no mean sleuth. A Pale Blue Eye is an engrossing pastiche of 19th century mystery/Gothic fiction, with several references to the works – and dark moods – of Poe’s own works and a good dollop of grand guignol. It is strong on atmosphere and I can imagine why this proved a good subject for a movie – certain scenes are “cinematic” in the sense that even while reading them it is not difficult to imagine them being rendered on screen. Admittedly, the novel calls for much suspension of disbelief, especially in the final chapters. But, I guess, that comes as part of this dark, blood-soaked package. https://endsoftheword.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-pale-blue-eye-by-louis-bayard.htm... ( ) JosephCamilleri | Feb 21, 2023 |  ) dylkit | Jul 16, 2022 | I enjoyed this well-written, mystery and the solution. ( ) Vesper1931 | Jul 29, 2021 |
 Bayard reinvigorates historical fiction, rendering the 19th century as if he'd witnessed it firsthand.  "The Pale Blue Eye" is not quite the unalloyed delight of Bayard's first Victorian thriller, "Mr. Timothy" (in part because of its melancholy setting and principal characters), but it's just as gracefully written, from its descriptions of the river, "glassy, opal-gray, crumpling into a million billows," to the author's unostentatious fidelity to the language and mores of the period.  Despite all this hugely accomplished and well-observed character study, the detective story that is meant to act as a framework for the book just doesn't match up to the style and quality of the prose.
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HTML: When the body of a suicide victim disappears at West Point Military Academy in 1831, only to be discovered hours later missing its heart, the Academy calls on retired detective Gus Landor to investigate. Landor is something of a legend among his peers, noted for an uncanny, Sherlock Holmes-like ability to read people. When Edgar Allan Poe, a new cadet, comes forth with his own cryptic conclusion-that the man Landor is looking for is a poet-Landor is intrigued and enlists Poe as his assistant. Working together, Landor and Poe narrow down the suspects, all the while dealing with their own personal demons. .No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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