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Chimney Sweepers Boy
Chimney Sweepers Boy
Author: Barbara Vine
An unforgettable tale of mystery and obsession by Barbara Vine (pseudonym of Ruth Rendell, winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement) — This is the utterly absorbing story of best-selling novelist Gerald Candless, whose sudden death from a heart attack leaves behind a wife and two doting daughters. To so...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780140867589
ISBN-10: 0140867589
Publication Date: 3/26/1998
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Publisher: Penguin Putnam~trade
Book Type: Unknown Binding
Other Versions: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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The book wants to be literature but it's not.
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This book was highly recommended to me - and I would have never finished it if it hadn't been! Slow starting and British, but I kept with it and it continued to draw me in until I wanted to finish it.
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When succesful author Gerald Candless dies of a sudden heart attack, his eldest, adoring daughter Sarah embarks on a memoir of him and soon discovers that her perfect father was not all he appeared to be. That infact he wasn't Gerald Candless at all. But then, who was he? And what terrible secret had driven him to live a lie for all those years?