★书名*作者:63t★英语原版书The Minotaur ~ Barbara Vine包平邮★ ★书号:ISBN 0141020725 ★新旧程度:二手书。 ★其他说明:完整,漂亮!
★简介*简评: 以下内容仅作参考,有任何问题请咨询本店主,可以直接通过视频看宝贝询问详情哦! 相关内容请参阅: http://www.amazon.com/Minotaur-Barbara-Vine/dp/0141020725 The Minotaur is the latest production by Ruth Rendell under her alter ego of Barbara Vine. The Vine novels concentrate on \"why\" rather than \"who\" or \"how\" in exploring the psychological reasons for crimes which take place in the past and are slowly revealed to the reader by narrators who witnessed some or all of the events. At Vine\'s best, as in her first two novels A Dark Adapted Eye and A Fatal Inversion, this technique produces an engrossing read which is difficult to put down and leaves one with much to ponder.
Unfortunately The Minotaur, while satisfying, is not on the same level as Vine\'s earliest work. This book contains many of Vine/Rendell\'s signature plot elements: a character from Scandinavia, a dysfunctional family, psychologically disturbed individuals, other individuals who are autistic, and an East Anglian setting with one or more old houses covered in Virginia creeper. In The Minotaur these characters and settings aren\'t as well developed and tend to be more stereotypical than illuminating. The story also doesn\'t jump back and forth from the past to the present quite as much as other Vine works do. Some readers might like that, but one of the things I myself find most appealing about Vine is that shift from time period to time period.
Despite these disappointments, I did enjoy The Minotaur. It is a satisfying little mystery which in typical British fashion leaves much unsaid and the reader with much to sort out for himself. I also liked the glimpses back to British life in the late 1960s and the comparisons with life thirty five years or so on.
I recommend The Minotaur unreservedly for Vine/Rendell veterans. If you are just discovering Barbara Vine, you will get a more developed introduction to her work by first reading the two books I mentioned above or by reading some similar in spirit Rendell works like The Crocodile Bird or A Sight For Sore Eyes.
Product Details Paperback: 464 pages Publisher: Penguin (January 1, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 0141020725 ISBN-13: 978-0141020723 Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.3 x 1.3 inches Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
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