false<![CDATA[The American Boy]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175630517m/538611.jpg53861113Interweaving real and fictional elements, <i>The American Boy</i> is a major new literary historical crime novel in the tradition of [book: An Instance of the Fingerpost] and [book: Possession].
England 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the boy's sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Drawn to Frant's beautiful, unhappy mother, Thomas becomes caught up in her family's twisted intrigues. Then a brutal crime is committed, with consequences that threaten to destroy Thomas and all that he has come to hold dear. Despite his efforts, Shield is caught up in a deadly tangle of sex, money, murder and lies -- a tangle that grips him tighter even as he tries to escape from it. And what of the strange American child, at the heart of these macabre events, yet mysterious -- what is the secret of the boy named Edgar Allen Poe?526009book2003The American Boytotal:198|5:30|4:72|3:64|2:24|1:8|1986863223740falsefalseSun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009Sun Jan 25 07:09:08 -0800 2009Fri Feb 06 11:04:20 -0800 2009
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40falsefalseWed Nov 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009Sun Sep 06 20:40:25 -0700 2009Wed Nov 04 20:36:02 -0800 2009 I've read many of the reviews, and while I agree with some of the criticisms (more on that later) I was so thoroughly caught up in this murder mystery set in the pre-Dickensian era that I have to put it on my list of favorites. The atmosphere, the details, the environ...more...]]>
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40falsefalseSat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008Fri Jun 20 08:23:16 -0700 2008Fri Jun 20 08:30:16 -0700 200840falsefalseMon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007Wed Mar 26 15:23:08 -0700 2008Wed Mar 26 15:25:19 -0700 200840falsefalseTue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008Tue Jan 08 04:39:54 -0800 2008Tue Jan 08 06:22:24 -0800 2008 A fantastic depictation of london in the 1820's, with enough twists in the story to keep the reader interested. Well paced from he outset, the book keeps the momentum up right up to the end.]]>
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