The School of Night

The School of Night
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A Novel

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فرمت کتاب

audiobook

تاریخ انتشار

2011

نویسنده

Robert Petkoff

ناشر

Macmillan Audio

شابک

9781427212078
  • اطلاعات
  • نقد و بررسی
  • دیدگاه کاربران
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نقد و بررسی

AudioFile Magazine
It's sometimes the case that a narrator inadvertently calls attention to all of a book's weaknesses. That's certainly true with Robert Petkoff in this mystery. His reading emphasizes the artificiality of Bayard's dialogue and poorly developed characters. The plot, diverting enough, concerns a long-lost letter written to Thomas Harriott, an Elizabethan-era inventor and friend of the doomed Sir Walter Raleigh. The novel's hero, disgraced scholar Henry Cavendish, is convinced by his outsized collector friend, Alonzo Wax, that the letter is a map leading to gold. Bayard intersperses the present with interludes back in time to Harriot and his budding romance with a servant girl. Petkoff, following the author's lead, portrays these and other characters as caricatures. It doesn't help that he also employs an inconsistent English accent. M.O. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

Publisher's Weekly

Starred review from February 7, 2011
Bayard (The Black Tower) shifts smoothly between present-day America and Elizabethan England in this superb intellectual thriller. At the Washington, D.C., funeral of document collector Alonzo Wax, who committed suicide, Bernard Styles, an elderly Englishman and rival collector, approaches Henry Cavendish, an Elizabethan scholar and the executor of Wax's estate, whose academic reputation suffered grievous harm after he authenticated a new Walter Ralegh poem that was later exposed as a hoax. Styles offers Cavendish $100,000 to locate a prize Wax had borrowed, a recently discovered Ralegh letter that may prove the existence of the School of Night, a secret debating club whose members included playwright Christopher Marlowe. Murder complicates the search for the letter. The author's persuasive portrayal of undeservedly obscure real-life scientist Thomas Harriot, a member of the school, enhances a plot with intelligence and depth.




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