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The High Flyer: Number 2 in series (St. Benet's) Howatch, Susan
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"When I first saw my temporary secretary it never occurred to me to flirt with him." The bemused confidence and upended assumption of this first sentence from The High Flyer, by Susan Howatch, reveal a great deal about the character who speaks it and the shape of this novel as a whole. The narrator, Carter Graham, is a successful London lawyer, a "high flyer" whose thoroughly secular plan for a perfect life (clothes, car, kids, etc.) is proceeding quite punctually, thanks to her strong sense of entitlement and her talent for social manipulation. The events that follow, however, undermine Carter's confident assumptions regarding the inner lives of the people around her. Carter meets and marries another high flyer, a charming business titan named Kim. Slowly, Carter learns of Kim's involvement in the occult, his Nazi past, and the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of his former wife. As the mysteries of Kim's past are revealed to Carter, Kim's personality undergoes a deep and demonic transformation. Carter, terrified, seeks shelter at a Christian healing center, where a cast of clerics and lay people help Carter reconstruct a life for herself, and a theological and psychological framework that makes some sense of the blindness and betrayal that destroyed her life with Kim. "[C]reation's not about efficiency," explains one character, "it's about love. It's about shedding blood, sweat and tears to make the thing you care about come right. It's about enduring the shadow side of creation and using it so that in the end everything can be brought into the light." The novel's greatest strength is its suspenseful plotting, which calls to mind (thanks in part to the narrator's frequent allusions to) the films of Alfred Hitchcock. --Michael Joseph Gross
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"Good and evil clash in gripping, intellectually satisfying ways...Vivid and absorbing....from one of the best correspondents on the war between darkness and light. Another winner."
-- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Devoted readers of Howatch's Starbridge series (Glamorous Powers; Glittering Images; Absolute Truths) will be delighted to encounter recurring characters Nicholas Darrow and Lewis Hall in her new psychological-spiritual thriller. Entertaining and intellectually stimulating."
-- Publishers Weekly
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Condition: Muy bueno. : En 'The High Flyer', Susan Howatch nos presenta a Carter Graham, una abogada de éxito cuya vida aparentemente perfecta se ve amenazada por eventos inquietantes y revelaciones oscuras. A medida que su mundo se desmorona, Carter se enfrenta a engaños, corrupción y fuerzas siniestras que ponen en peligro su cordura y su vida. En su búsqueda de la verdad, recurre a los sanadores de St. Benet's en busca de ayuda, pero incluso ellos pueden no ser capaces de salvarla de la terrible prueba que le espera. Una historia de suspense que explora los rincones oscuros de la sociedad y la búsqueda de la salvación en un mundo caótico. EAN: 9780316851763 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Otros Título: The High Flyer Autor: Susan Howatch Editorial: Little, Brown Idioma: en Páginas: 585 Formato: tapa dura. Seller Inventory # Happ-2023-11-15-83fef214
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