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Books : Christine Falls: A Novel |
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
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Label: Henry Holt and Co.
Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: March 06, 2007
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Release Date: March 06, 2007
Studio: Henry Holt and Co.
Sales Rank: 153042
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In the debut crime novel from the Booker-winning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of
a conspiracy among the city’s high Catholic society It’s not the dead that seem strange to Quirke. It’s the living. One night, after a few drinks at an office party, Quirke shuffles down into the morgue where he works and finds his brother-in-law, Malachy, altering a file he has no business even reading. Odd enough in itself to find Malachy there, but the next morning, when the haze has lifted, it looks an awful lot like his brother-in-law, the esteemed doctor, was in fact tampering with a corpse—and concealing the cause of death.
It turns out the body belonged to a young woman named Christine Falls. And as Quirke reluctantly presses on toward the true facts behind her death, he comes up against some insidious—and very well-guarded—secrets of Dublin’s high Catholic society, among them members of his own family.
Set in Dublin and Boston in the 1950s, the first novel in the Quirke series brings all the vividness and psychological insight of Booker Prize winner John Banville’s fiction to a thrilling, atmospheric crime story. Quirke is a fascinating and subtly drawn hero, Christine Falls is a classic tale of suspense, and Benjamin Black’s debut marks him as a true master of the form.
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It is impossible to adequately evaluate Black's writing due to Timothy Dalton's narration, which varies from "over the top" silly to soporific.
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Not to mince words, Christine Falls is a dreadful mystery. The plot is banal, the 'villain' the transparent first choice. The 'conspiracy' is not fully developed, and it is not even apparent why the author sees it as as inherently evil as he evidently believes it to be. Early on, one of the minor characters is the victim of a homicide. The author never clarifies who is responsible, or just what the culprits (whoever they are)hoped to accomplish by the murder. The prose, which is highly praised in ... Read More
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Christine Falls is the name of a young woman who dies just before the start of this mystery story that begins in Ireland in the nineteen-fifties. The principal character Quirke, consultant pathologist at a Dublin hospital, finds his brother-in-law Mal Griffin in his office writing up her death certificate. Mal is also a consultant at the hospital, a society obstetrician. Quirke, an antisocial alcoholic widower, seems to have moved down as his former childhood friend has moved up. Although he does ... Read More
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Black employs some lovely imagery--the frequent references to the wind surrounding the characters and other climatic descriptions are exquisitely phrased, which makes it all the more disappointing to read the hyper-melodramatic cliches tumbling from his characters' mouths. Every character seems to get the same treatment, a tormented psychological backstory, no matter how trivial he or she is, so you keep expecting them to reappear and fulfill an important role in the plot (but you're frequently disappointed). ... Read More
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The writting in this book is much better than that of the usual mystery. It is however a very depressing story,
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Henry Holt and Co.
Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: March 06, 2007
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Release Date: March 06, 2007
Studio: Henry Holt and Co.
Sales Rank: 153042
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