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The penultimate novel in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series takes Goya's theme of monsters that appear in our sleep. The sleep of reason here is embodied in the ghastly murders of children that involve torture and sadism.
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It contemplates the passing of time, the slippage of power, the assertion of a new generation and the painful vagaries of human nature. (Kirkus Reviews)
The book of his which I think is the most powerful, because it is so honest. (Peter Hitchens Daily Mail)
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The book of his which I think is the most powerful, because it is so honest. (Peter Hitchens Daily Mail)
The penultimate book in C. P. Snow's magnificent Strangers and Brothers sequence. Set between 1963 and 1964, it sees Lewis Eliot return to the provincial town of his childhood and become entangled in the aftermath of a terrible murder.
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- Publication date1979
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