Fangland: A Novel - Hardcover

Marks, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 159420117X ISBN 13: 9781594201172

Publisher: Penguin Pr, 2007

Synopsis

Traveling to Romania on behalf of her popular television news magazine, Evangeline Harker investigates a notorious crime boss named Ion Torgu, only to disappear and awaken several months later in a Transylvanian monastery with no memory of what happened to her.

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Review:

"A novel about a monster that evokes all the sadness, brutality and hideous glamour of human depravity. It's about the abyss, and the big hole in Lower Manhattan, and the strange, dark, funny stuff in each of us. It'll grab you and not let go until it's done with you" (Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife)

"With wit and fury, John Marks describes a media culture so obsessed with image that it is powerless to resist the malevolent force of true evil. There are several monsters in Fangland, but the most dangerous ones appear every night, smiling on your television screen" (John Twelve Hawks, author of The Traveller)

"Love and death, sex and violence, satiric wit and genuine horror: Fangland has it all. Much more than a modern gothic thriller, John Marks's novel is, at its dark heart, a meditation on the nature of good and evil. I was thoroughly creeped out... and enjoyed every minute of it" (Keith Donohue, author of The Stolen Child)

"An unforgettable reimagining of Dracula for the 21st century. It takes a rare talent to make a seductive, perhaps even murderous female protagonist into a symbol of a strong modern woman, but John Marks has done just that. Ambitious, career-minded, yet vulnerable, Evangeline Harker is the anchor to an equally ambitious and powerful novel" (Mitch Cullin, author of Tideland and A Slight Trick of the Mind)

"This inventive re-working of Bram Stoker's Dracula - written, like the original, in epistolary form - may be modern in its setting ... but at its heart, this is old-fashioned Gothic horror" (Daily Mail)

From the Publisher:

John Marks, a former 60 Minutes producer, grandly reinvents the Dracula epic in an astonishing satire on the way we live and work in the post-9/11 world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Pr
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 159420117X
• ISBN 13: 9781594201172
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 385