The Secret Life of E. Robert Pendleton

Collins, Michael

ISBN 10: 0297850830 / ISBN 13: 9780297850830

Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006

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Hardcover in jacket with short tear to jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Secret Life of E. Robert Pendleton
• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0297850830
• ISBN 13: 9780297850830
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

For Robert Pendleton, a professor clinging to tenure and living in the shambles of his once-bright literary career, death seems to be the only remaining option. But his suicide attempt fails, halted at the last moment by the intervention of Adi Wiltshire, a graduate student battling her own demons of failure and thwarted ambition. During Pendleton's long convalescence, Adi discovers a novel hidden in his a brilliant, semi-autobiographical story with a gruesome child-murder at its core.The publication of Scream causes a storm of a whirlwind into which Adi, Horowitz and the still-incapacitated Pendleton are thrust. The novel is treated as an existential masterpiece and looks set to bring its author the success he's always sought - when, ironically, he is no longer in a condition to appreciate it - until questions begin to be asked about its in particular about the uncanny resemblance between Pendleton's fictional crime and a real-life, unresolved local murder. Enter Jon Ryder, a world-weary detective who could have walked off the pages of a police thriller, and the hunt for the murderer is on.