An Instance of the Fingerpost Paperback - 2000
by Pears, Iain
- Used
In England of the 1660s, a young woman is accused of the murder of a New College fellow, who has been found dead under mysterious circumstances. Four extremely diverse witnesses give their accounts of the events--but only one reveals the extraordinary truth.
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- Title An Instance of the Fingerpost
- Author Pears, Iain
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 704
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Riverhead Books, New York
- Date 2000-04-01
- Features Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # U09G-00585
- ISBN 9781573227957 / 1573227951
- Weight 1.61 lbs (0.73 kg)
- Dimensions 8.97 x 5.96 x 1.48 in (22.78 x 15.14 x 3.76 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 17th Century
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Historical fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97023899
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
"It is 1663, and England is wracked with intrigue and civil strife. When an Oxford don is murdered, it seems at first that the incident can have nothing to do with great matters of church and state....Yet, little is as it seems in this gripping novel, which dramatizes the ways in which witnesses can see the same events yet remember them falsely. Each of four narrators—a Venetian medical student, a young man intent on proving his late father innocent of treason, a cryptographer, and an archivist—fingers a different culprit...an erudite and entertaining tour de force." —People
Iain Pears's The Dream of Scipio and The Portrait are also available from Riverhead Books.
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"Yet, little is as it seems in this gripping novel, which dramatizes the ways in which witnesses can see the same events yet remember them falsely. Each of four narrators -- a Venetian medical student, a young man intent on proving his late father innocent of treason, a cryptographer and an archivist -- fingers a different culprit... an erudite and entertaining tour de force". -- People
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Citations
- Entertainment Weekly, 05/19/2000, Page 65
- Publishers Weekly Best Books, 01/01/1998, Page 42
