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The great stink / Clare Clark.
LIBRA - Special PR6103.L3725 G74 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clark, Clare.
- Series:
- Harvest book
- A Harvest book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crimean War, 1853-1856--Veterans--Fiction.
- Crimean War, 1853-1856.
- Underground areas--Fiction.
- Underground areas.
- Sewerage.
- Ragpickers.
- Veterans.
- London (England)--Fiction.
- London (England).
- Ragpickers--Fiction.
- Sewerage--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Mystery fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 356 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First Harvest edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, 2006.
- Summary:
- It is 1855, and engineer William May has returned home to London and his beloved wife from the horrors of the Crimean War. When he secures a job transforming the city's sewer system, he believes it will prove his salvation, as, in the subterranean world beneath the city, he begins to lay his ghosts to rest. But when the peace of the tunnels is shattered by a violent murder William loses his tenuous hold on his sanity. Implicated in the crime, plagued by nightmares and visions, he is no longer sure: Could he truly have committed it? Long Arm Tom, a tosher, is William's only hope of salvation.
- Notes:
- "First published in Great Britain by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd."--T.p.verso.
- ISBN:
- 0156030888
- 9780156030885
- OCLC:
- 71543318
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