No Night Is Too Long - Softcover

Barbara Vine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140250409 ISBN 13: 9780140250404

Publisher: Gardners Books, 1995

Synopsis

Set in Alaska and Suffolk, this story involves a brother (Ivo) and sister (Isabel), each of whom has a sexual relationship with Tim. When Ivo is left for dead on an Arctic island, the way seems clear for Tim and Isabel. But nothing plays itself out in the way one might expect.

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From the Back Cover:

Praise for Barbara Vine's most recent novel, Anna's Book

"Absorbing, complexly crafted ... a brilliantly executed tour de force."

-- Wall Street Journal

"Anna's Book is a captivating story within a captivating story, a first-rate study of class, gender, and character, a courtroom drama and an un-put-downable page-turner."

-- Susan Isaacs, Washington Post Book World

"Louche and adventurous ... a mystery carefully laid out and ingeniously solved."

-- Village Voice Literary Supplement

Praise for Barbara Vine

"When Ruth Rendell, already the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world, launched a second byline, Barbara Vine, she actually stepped up her writing level."

-- Time

"This gifted author's ability to draw us so completely into her vividly realized, guilt-ridden worlds that they seem to meld, seamlessly, with our own is what makes her one of the finest practitioners of her craft in the English-speaking world."

-- Joyce Carol-Oates, New York Times Book Review

"Simply put, [she] is one of the greatest writers ever."

-- Scott Turow

From the Inside Flap:

f Anna's Book -- who was hailed as "one of the finest practitioners of her craft in the English-speaking world" by the New York Times Book Review -- has written a relentlessly compelling tale of sexual obsession, mistaken identity, and murder.

Tim thought he'd gotten away with it. For months after the murder off the Alaskan coast he'd heard not a word. No policeman at his door asking questions. Nothing. And then the letters began. At first they seemed almost innocuous accounts of historical events. But a common theme emerged quickly. It was particularly germane to Tim, and it related directly to murder.

In No Night Is Too Long, Barbara Vine has written a tour de force, rich in characters and setting, a remarkable novel by an internationally celebrated master of her craft. To research the book, the author and her husband embarked on a boat trip from Seattle up the Alaskan coast. The stark beauty of that experience provides No Night Is Too Long with an extraordinarily

About this edition

• Publisher: Gardners Books
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0140250409
• ISBN 13: 9780140250404
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336