Louise Welsh

Tamburlaine Must Die (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"A taut, seedy novella scraped off the undercarriage of Elizabethan England." Arena

It is 1593 and London is a city on edge. Under threat from plague and war, strangers are unwelcome and severed heads grin from spikes on Tower Bridge. Tamburlaine Must Die is the story of the last days of the playwright Christopher Marlowe, a man who dares to defy both God and state - and discovers that there are worse fates than damnation . . .

"Elizabethan England has never seemed so beguilingly immediate ... Every vignette, every minor character, every sight, sound and smell, has the ring of truth." Sunday Telegraph

"Pungently atmospheric." Observer

"Tamburlaine Must Die sets the seal on Welsh's skills as a writer. She weaves fact and fiction into a compelling plot not for the faint-hearted." Scotland on Sunday

"Bold, imaginative, vibrant." Daily Telegraph

"A page-turner to the very end." Sunday Herald

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847676948
• Artikelnr.: 38455914

Autorenporträt

Louise Welsh is the bestselling author of The Cutting Room and Tamburlaine Must Die. She was chosen as one of Britain's Best First Novelists of 2002 by the Guardian, won The Crime Writers' Association Creasey Dagger for the best first crime novel, and the Saltire First Book of The Year Award, 2002. Her new novel, The Bullet Trick is published in paperback Feb 2007.

Rezensionen

Welsh shows not just her skill in plotting but also a commendable feeling for period. The vignettes of Elizabethan life in all its raw immediacy ring thrillingly true. It is a marvellous effort by an underrated writer. Sally Cousins