Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta, A
Record details
- ISBN: 0771085370
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Physical Description:
print
Hardcover Book{HCB}
272 p. - Publisher: [S.l.] : McClelland & Stewart, 2009
Content descriptions
General Note: | Paul Theroux returns to India with a stylish and gripping novel of crime and obsession in Calcutta.<br><br>In <b>A Dead Hand</b>, Paul Theroux brings to dramatic life a dark and twisted narrative of obsession and need. When Jerry Delfont, a travel writer with writers block, receives a letter from a captivating and seductive American philanthropist with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her sons, he is sufficiently intrigued to pursue the story. Who is the boy found on the floor of a cheap hotel room, how and why did he die what is it that pulls Delfont into this story, and will he ever find the truth about what happened? |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | Import |
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Riverton Branch | FIC THE (Text) | 31511000876473 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |