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Cecilie Pedersen (Switzerland) (2009/07/25):
Didn't care much for this book, but I did finish it nevertheless.
IrishPenJen (United Kingdom) (2012/01/04):
Description:
Leaving behind his father's failures, Gabriel Swift arrives to study with Edwin Poll, the greatest of the city's anatomists. It is his chance to find advancement by making a name for himself. But instead he finds himself drawn to his master's nemesis, Lucan, the most powerful of the city's resurrectionists and ruler of its trade in stolen bodies.What the papers say:
"'Marries a gruesome and thrilling horror story to an intense brooding meditation on the most profound metaphysical questions.' Sydney Morning Herald" Author's Biography:
James Bradley was born in 1967. He has twice been named as one of the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian Novelists and has won the Fellowship of Australian Writers Literature Award, the Kathleen Mitchell Literary Award and has been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. He is the author of a collection of poetry called Paper Nautilus and the novels Wrack, The Deep Field and The Resurrectionist. In 2008 The Resurrectionist was chosen as a Richard and Judy Summer Read, becoming a massive bestseller. James lives in Sydney.
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