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Jack Glass
Adam C. Roberts
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Description for Jack Glass
Paperback. Golden Age SF meets Golden Age Crime from the author Kim Stanley Robinson thinks should have won the Booker. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 154 x 29. Weight in Grams: 310.
WINNER OF THE BSFA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL Jack Glass is the murderer. We know this from the start. Yet as this extraordinary novel tells the story of three murders committed by Glass the reader will be surprised to find out that it was Glass who was the killer and how he did it. And by the end of the book our sympathies for the killer are fully engaged. Riffing on the tropes of crime fiction (the country house murder, the locked room mystery) and imbued with the feel of golden age SF, JACK ... Read more
WINNER OF THE BSFA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL Jack Glass is the murderer. We know this from the start. Yet as this extraordinary novel tells the story of three murders committed by Glass the reader will be surprised to find out that it was Glass who was the killer and how he did it. And by the end of the book our sympathies for the killer are fully engaged. Riffing on the tropes of crime fiction (the country house murder, the locked room mystery) and imbued with the feel of golden age SF, JACK ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Gollancz
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
312g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780575127647
SKU
V9780575127647
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About Adam C. Roberts
Adam Roberts is Professor of 19th-century literature at London University. His novel JACK GLASS won the BSFA AWARD for Best Novel and three of his novels have been shortlisted for the ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD. He maintains at least three separate critical blogs. He has also published a number of academic works on both 19th-century poetry and SF.
Reviews for Jack Glass
In the tradition of Swift, Orwell and Atwood. Times