A01=Rupert Thomson
Author_Rupert Thomson
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ISBN13=9781408179963
Language_English
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Subject=Modern & Contemporary Fiction
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Product details
- ISBN 9781408179963
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 360g
- Dimensions: 126 x 194mm
- Publication Date: 30 Aug 2012
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: London, GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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At the turn of the century Théophile and Suzanne Valence sail into the Mexican copper-mining town of Santa Sofìa. Théo has travelled here to build a metal church designed by his mentor, the great engineer Gustave Eiffel. His wife Suzanne, wayward and graced with the gift of clairvoyance is deeply in love and has insisted on accompanying him. But the magical landscape inspires no answering passion in Théo. In her loneliness she turns to the American gold prospector Wilson Pharaoh, and soon he, like the town and its inhabitants, falls under her spell, an enchantment as seductive as Suzanne herself.
RUPERT THOMSON is the author of eight highly acclaimed novels, of which Air and Fire and The Insult were shortlisted for the Writer's Guild Fiction Prize and the Guardian Fiction Prize respectively. His most recent novel, Death of a Murderer, was shortlisted for the 2008 Costa Novel Award. His memoir This Party's Got to Stop was published in 2009.
