An Instance of the Fingerpost
Click to look inside
World of Books
The feel-good place to buy books
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
A national bestseller and one of the New York Public Library's Books to Remember, An Instance of the Fingerpost is a thrilling historical mystery from Iain Pears. It is 1663, and England is wracked with intrigue and civil strife. When an Oxford don is murdered, it seems at first that the incident can have nothing to do with great matters of church and state.Yet, little is as it seems in this gripping novel, which dramatizes the ways in which witnesses can see the same events yet remember them falsely. Each of four narrators--a Venetian medical student, a young man intent on proving his late father innocent of treason, a cryptographer, and an archivist--fingers a different culprit.an erudite and entertaining tour de force. --People Iain Pears's The Dream of Scipio and The Portrait are also available from Riverhead Books.Tim Pears' novels include In the Place of Falling Leaves, which won the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award; In a Land of Plenty, which was adapted into a ten-part BBC television series; A Revolution of the Sun; Wake Up; and Blenheim Orchard. Pears lives in Oxford and has won various accolades, including the Lannan Literary Award.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780425167724 |
| ISBN 10 | 0425167720 |
| Title | An Instance of the Fingerpost |
| Author | Iain Pears |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 1999-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 752 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |