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Carregando... Requiem (1995)de Graham Joyce
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. While I enjoy Joyce's writing and he usually does a good job, I wasn't too pleased with this novel. Overall the writing was fine and the story was OK and the characters didn't suck, but at the same time there was nothing that pulled me into the story. I was very much an impartial observer who watched as a whiny Tom Webster visits his friend Sharon in Jerusalem. Once there he starts hallucinating and losing his mind. Did I care? Not really. I was more interested in the story behind the Dead Sea Scrolls that were left in his possession. That was a much more engaging plot than dealing with the manifestations of Tom's guilt. Unfortunately we don't get more than a little of the Dead Sea Scrolls; they mostly are there to help personify Tom's hallucinations. This book is not one of Joyce's better works. ( ) Another great book by Joyce. This time around the characters are so messed up, so disfunctional that you cannot help but root for them to make it through, to find the secrets out, to win. Set in a city that I have little knowledge of, Joyce led us on a wonderful mystery filled with religion, love, the supernatural and the stupid things that we do when we are in love. Once again he has me looking at the world in a very different way.
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"After the tragic death of his wife, Katie, Tom Webster travels to modern-day Jerusalem in search of a lost love and a reason to keep on living. He finds a city haunted by ghosts and djinn, divided by warring religious factions, yet offering him no refuge from his guilt and grief. Even his passionate affair with Sharon, an old friend and lover from his college days, cannot save Tom from the madness that appears to be overcoming him, nor hide him from the mysterious, spectral woman who shadows his every step." "Only when a dying scholar entrusts him with a previously unknown Dead Sea Scroll does Tom begin to realize that his torment and bizarre hallucinations relate not only to his wife's death, but to another death that shaped the world two thousand years ago..." "What woman truly haunts Tom's ordeal in Jerusalem? Sharon? Katie? Or the restless spirit of none other than Mary Magdalene?"--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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