A Dead Language

Peter Rushforth

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ISBN 10: 0743286057 ISBN 13: 9780743286053

Published by London ; Simon & Schuster, 2006., 2006

Language: English

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Title

A Dead Language

Publisher

London ; Simon & Schuster, 2006.

Publication Date

2006

Language

English

ISBN 10

0743286057

ISBN 13

9780743286053

Binding

Hardback

Condition

Good

Weight

600 grams

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Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton - the faithless young naval lieutenant who abandons Madam Butterfly - was glimpsed fleetingly in Peter Rushforth's previous novel, "Pinkerton's Sister". Now Ben steps out of the shadows and into the centre of the stage, a young man haunted by the desolation of his boyhood years, unable to show or respond to love. He's about to sail for Japan. But his imminent departure conjures up the life he and his sister have led, and the monstrous act for which he is most remembered: the rejection and destruction of a pure and loving heart. What happened to him then will mark his whole life. He is his own man, but he is also his sister's brother. Once again, in his mastery of language, his extraordinary imagination, his superb sense of time and place, Peter Rushforth has given the world a second masterpiece, ranking alongside, or surpassing, his earlier triumph.

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"...compelling...Pinkerton's Sister is a very fine novel, at once sprawling and intimate, and blessed with long gorgeous passages worthy of Henry James." – Washington Post

"[Rushforth’s] novel constitutes an epic inquiry into literature’s role as an engine of interior life." – New Yorker

"Pinkerton's Sister is 729 pages long, each of those pages as wondrously unsettling as the next...a gorgeous conundrum, the result of a lifetime of close reading – and some 25 years of close writing." – Daniel Handler, --San Francisco Chronicle

"If only more writers could be so patient. Pinkerton’s Sister is a work of rare beauty and (rarer still!) genuine wit." – The Believer

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