The Last Bookaneer by Matthew Pearl
On the island of Samoa, in a house perched on a cliff beneath a smouldering volcano, a dying Robert Louis Stevenson labours over a new novel. It is rumoured that this may be the author of Treasure Island’s greatest masterpiece. On the other side of the world this news fires the imaginations of the bookaneers, literary pirates who steal the latest manuscripts by famous writers to smuggle them to a hungry public. But a changing world means the bookaneers will soon become extinct. Two adversaries set out for the south Pacific: Pen Davenport, a tortured criminal genius haunted by his past and Belial, his nemesis. Both dream of fortune and immortality with this last and most incredible heist. The Last Bookaneer thrillingly depicts the lost world of these doomed outlaws, a tropical island with a violent destiny, a brewing colonial war and a reclusive genius directing events from high in his mountain compound.
An ingenious thriller * Sunday Times *
Masterly story-telling * Daily Mail *
A mixture of a classic heist and literary history lesson; the whole Victorian world of letters is cleverly and wittily reimagined -- Kate Saunders * The Times *
A historical jigsaw puzzle of literary larceny, deception, and derring-do…richly imagined * Boston Globe *
[Pearl’s] clever final twist will surprise the general reader, and please Stevenson scholars -- Janette Currie * Independent on Sunday *
Masterly story-telling * Daily Mail *
A mixture of a classic heist and literary history lesson; the whole Victorian world of letters is cleverly and wittily reimagined -- Kate Saunders * The Times *
A historical jigsaw puzzle of literary larceny, deception, and derring-do…richly imagined * Boston Globe *
[Pearl’s] clever final twist will surprise the general reader, and please Stevenson scholars -- Janette Currie * Independent on Sunday *
Matthew Pearl is the internationally bestselling author of The Dante Club, published in more than thirty languages and forty countries. His other books include The Poe Shadow and The Last Dickens. Pearl is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School and has taught literature at Harvard and at Emerson College. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781846556197 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846556198 |
| Title | The Last Bookaneer |
| Author | Matthew Pearl |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2015-05-14 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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