Countenance Divine

AvMichael Hughes

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

Del i serien John Murray

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'Michael Hughes writes like a brilliant cross between David Mitchell and Hilary Mantel' Toby LittIn 1999 a programmer is trying to fix the millennium bug, but can't shake the sense he's been chosen for something.In 1888 five women are brutally murdered in the East End by a troubled young man in thrall to a mysterious master.In 1777 an apprentice engraver called William Blake has a defining spiritual experience; thirteen years later this vision returns.And in 1666 poet and revolutionary John Milton completes the epic for which he will be remembered centuries later.But where does the feeling come from that the world is about to end?

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-04-06
Mått:129 x 198 x 18 mm
Vikt:213 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:John Murray
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:John Murray Press
ISBN:9781473636514

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Michael Hughes was born and raised in the border town of Keady in Northern Ireland. After university, he trained in theatre at the Jacques Lecoq School in Paris, and he has worked for many years as an actor under the professional name Michael Colgan. He previously taught Creative Writing in the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University Belfast, before moving to Queen Mary University of London, where he currently teaches. He is the author of the novels The Countenance Divine and Country, which won the London Hellenic Prize and was shortlisted for the EU Prize for Literature.