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false <![CDATA[Stone's Fall: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255736024m/6182702.jpg 6182702 5 A return to the form that launched Iain Pears onto bestseller lists around the world: a vast historical mystery, marvelous in its ambition and ingenius in its complexity. In his most dazzling novel since the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears tells the story of John Stone, financier and arms dealer, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War One he was able to manipulate markets, industries, and indeed entire countries and continents. A panoramic novel with a riveting mystery at its heart, Stone’s Fall is a quest to discover how and why John Stone dies, falling out of a window at his London home. Chronologically, it moves backwards–from London in 1909 to Paris in 1890, and finally to Venice in 1867– and in the process the quest to uncover the truth plays out against the backdrop of the evolution of high-stakes international finance, Europe’s first great age of espionage, and the start of the twentieth century’s arms race. Like Fingerpost, Stone’s Fall is an intricately plotted and richly satisfying puzzle–an erudite work of history and fiction that feels utterly true and oddly timely–and marks the triumphant return of one of the world’s great storytellers. 6362811 5 5 2009 Stone's Fall: A Novel total:263|5:62|4:120|3:58|2:16|1:7| 263 1003 732 122 4 4 false false Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Feb 16 19:03:30 -0800 2009 Mon May 04 09:05:29 -0700 2009 The Dream of Scipio against the wall with great force.)

As in An Instance of the Fingerpost, Pears uses multiple narrators to tell the story of financier John S...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 11:27:49 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 11:30:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 4 false false Thu Jul 02 08:27:04 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 08:57:21 -0700 2009 An Instance of the Fingerpost, but I was d...more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Jun 02 08:03:21 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 08:04:08 -0700 2009 By Pears, Iain

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In his most dazzling novel since the groundbreaking "New York Times" bestseller "An Instance of the Fingerpost," Pears tells the story of John Stone, a man so wealthy that in the years bef...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 15:08:38 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 15:09:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue May 12 10:35:43 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 10:36:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 15:18:38 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 15:28:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jun 01 07:39:10 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 08:05:48 -0700 2009 "Think of a subject so dull that no one would possibly think to make a thriller out of it. Now double the length of said thriller. Then add the author Iain Pears—and you've got a weird magic trick on your hands," noted the Times in amazement. Although he introduces complex ideas about gl...

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978-0-224-08437-6 £12.99 pbk

The story is written in three parts, beginning in 1909 after John Stone, a wealthy financier and armaments manufacturer, falls to his death through an open window. Journalist Matthew Broderick is asked ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 14:21:01 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 14:21:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jul 03 09:04:38 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 09:55:31 -0700 2009
Stone, a prominent business man in 19th century London, has been found dead after falling from a window. Was it a simple, unfortuna...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 00:37:15 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 21:31:06 -0700 2009 I've tried reading An Instance of the Fingerpost 3 times and have never gotten past the 2nd part, not because it's terrible but I guess I didn't have enough energy to carry through to end, which happens to me with long long books. When this came across my desk I figured, Why Not? I was determined to...

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Obviously, each has different information and each telling of ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 06:11:15 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 12:17:35 -0700 2009 1 An Instance of the Fingerpost A Novel, Stone's Fall brilliantly uses shifting narrators and points of view to illuminate different aspects of plot and character. In this instance, he has three different authors telling their stories backwards in time, providing ...more...]]> 0 7 false false Fri Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 16:29:36 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 15:39:05 -0700 2009
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Pears knows how to tell a story and ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 15:15:24 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 15:23:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 17:03:01 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 06:18:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Jun 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 19:50:32 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 21:28:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6182702