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Synopsis
Mitch Cullin’s absorbing A Slight Trick of the Mind is an original portrait of literature’s most beloved detective, Sherlock Holmes, in the twilight of his illustrious life.
Holmes—“a genius in whom scientific curiosity is raised to the status of heroic passion”—is famous for his powers of deduction. His world is made up of hard evidence and uncontestable facts, his observations and conclusions unsullied by personal feelings, until novelist Cullin goes behind the cold, unsentimental surface to reveal for the first time the inner world of an obsessively private man.
It is 1947, and the long-retired Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse, where his memories and intellect begin to go adrift. He lives with a housekeeper and her young son, Roger, whose patient, respectful demeanor stirs paternal affection in Holmes. Holmes has settled into the routine of tending his apiary, writing in journals, and grappling with the diminishing powers of his razor-sharp mind, when Roger comes upon a case hitherto unknown. It is that of a Mrs. Keller, the long-ago object of Holmes’s deep—and never acknowledged—infatuation.
As Mitch Cullin weaves together Holmes’s hidden past, his poignant struggle to retain mental acuity, and his unlikely relationship with Roger, Holmes is transformed from the machine-like, mythic figure into an ordinary man, confronting and acquiescing to emotions he has resisted his entire life. This subtle and wise work is more than just a reimagining of a classic character. It is a profound meditation on faultiness of memory and how, as we grow older, the way we see the world is inevitably altered.
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Review
"Beautiful . . . It's what a novel should be" (Washington Post)
"A wise and touching examination of the human condition" (Los Angeles Times Book Review)
"Cullin is an unusually sophisticated theorist of human nature . . . Beautiful" (New York Times Book Review)
"Wonderfully written and heartbreaking" (San Francisco Chronicle)
"Quite extraordinary . . . Our hero-our eternal hero-has never been more heroic, or more human" (Village Voice)
"This is literary crime fiction at its best" (Good Housekeeping)
"Extremely touching" (Independent)
"Original and surprising" (Sunday Times)
"A meandering, unobtrusively mystical meditation on the oddities of human nature" (Weekly Telegraph)
"A curious, unusual and wonderful novel...this is an essential and truly fascinating read" (Scotsman)
Book Description
A devastating literary novel about Sherlock Holmes, soon to be a major film
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- PublisherUlverscroft Ltd
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1444823442
- ISBN 13 9781444823448
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages312
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