ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1961
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Michael Innes - Old Hall, New Hall
Penguin, 1961
218 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro

The forbears of Sir John Jory, of New Hall, would seem to have committed several foul acts, including tomb-robbery and murder. Old Hall, the family`s former residence, is now a University. Biographer Colin Clout, engaged to write an account of one of Jory`s ancestors, gets caught up in a frenzied treasure hunt as rival interests and rival claimants probe the past and naked greed comes to the fore.

`It all made - Clout reflected - a wonderful field for the artist`s brooding eye. He wondered if Redbrick realism was the line of his rival Lumb. What Kafka, of course, would `do` - Clout remembered to put the magical word between its inverted commas - was the bewilderment: the ambiguities and the false casts and the culs-de-sac. Nobody would be quite sure whether anybody else was a student or a professor; and there would be intermittent doubt about the place being a university at all, and not say, a maternity hospital or the municipal abattoir. And, in particular...`


Fiction, Mystery