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Seller: Jeff 'n' Joys Quality Books, Redcar, United KingdomJeff 'n' Joys Quality Books
AbeBooks seller since October 26, 2000
Condition: Used - Very good
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A first UK edition hardback in very good condition for its age. Bumped at head and tail of book spine. Age tanning to pages. The dust jacket is complete, still shows the price but is showing some signs of wear to the extremities. Creased at top edge of rear panel and at the bottom of the jacket spine (to correspond with the bump) Icelandic author Olafsson's first novel to be published in English. SYNOPSIS: "Peter Peterson is racked by nightmares of the crime he may have committed half a century ago, a crime of jealousy and betrayal that has shaped and overshadowed his life. These are his putative memoirs - the confessions of an Icelandic expatriate living out his final years in New York, a degenerate aesthete, rich and unscrupulous, a failed husband and father whose children are a 'testimony to a mistake'" Packed weight 520gms. IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH.
Seller Inventory # 7405
- Title
- Absolution
- Author
- Olaf OLAFSSON
- Publisher
- Phoenix House
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1897580029
- ISBN 13
- 9781897580028
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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Review
"Powerfully accomplished. . . . Absolution sets long reverberations tolling in the reader's mind." -The New York Review of Books "A clever, unexpectedly enjoyable novel of crime and punishment." -The New York Times "A fascinating, wintry tale of a frozen heart." -The Wall Street Journal
"A literary triumph. . . . The book works extremely well both as a psychological thriller and as a character study." -The European "A solemn, intellectually challenging work." -Chicago Tribune "The first book in English by this top-notch Nordic novelist, who may become that true rarity, an Icelandic Nobel Prize winner." -Forbes Magazine "Surprisingly effective. . . . This story of crime and punishment is an impressive novel. . . . A modest, but not unworthy, offspring of Dostoevsky's towering predecessor." - The Economist "Compulsive reading, and the spare, dry language concentrates the suspense. . . . As cold and lucid as a quartz crystal." -Independent on Sunday "Spellbinding. . . . Formidably written." -Entertainment Weekly "The novel whose aftertaste has lingered longest this year is Absolution. . . . Its deep humanity and elegiac tone made it oddly exhilarating. . . . A superlative example of the genre, which reverberates in the reader's mind because of the craftsmanship and integrity which Olafsson has brought to the story." -Sunday Telegraph "[A] sophisticated novel . . . written in clear, sparse prose." -The Times (London) "Olafsson's debut as a writer in English has more than curiosity value: this is a fine novel." -Time Out "Icelander Olafsson's style has the linear austerity and emotionally supercharged restraint that seems a Nordic hallmark. . . . The honesty of this first-person account of a traumatised conscience holds the attention. The slow-burning fuse of the narrator's guilt . . . smoulders through skilled writing and narrative integrity." -The Observer
"Funny, sad and utterly enjoyable." -The Spectator
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Jeff 'n' Joys Quality Books
Redcar, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since October 26, 2000
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