An Instance of the Fingerpost is that rarest of all possible literary beasts--a mystery powered as much by ideas as by suspects, autopsies, and smoking guns. Hefty, intricately plotted, and intellectually ambitious, Fingerpost has drawn the inevitable comparisons to Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose and, for once, the comparison is apt/5(). · an instance of the fingerpost by Iain Pears ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 9, Nothing in Pears's five archly amusing art mysteries (Giotto's Hand, p. ; The Last Judgement, , etc.) hints at the range or depth or boldness of this multifaceted scrutiny of a murder case in Restoration www.doorway.ru: Kirkus Reviews. Iain Pears is a Coventry-born and Oxford-educated art historian and author of historical mysteries, and An Instance of the Fingerpost is his most famous novel. Good historians are not necessarily good authors and good authors are not necessarily good historians, but in Fingerpost Pears manages to strike a comfortable balance between both professions/5(K).
An Instance of the Fingerpost is that rarest of all possible literary beasts--a mystery powered as much by ideas as by suspects, autopsies, and smoking guns. Hefty, intricately plotted, and intellectually ambitious, Fingerpost has drawn the inevitable comparisons to Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose and, for once, the comparison is apt. The year is , and the setting is Oxford, England. With An Instance of the Fingerpost, author Iain Pears enters literary territory previously explored by writers as diverse as Umberto Eco, Don DeLillo, and E. L. Doctorow: the historical novel that. AN INSTANCE OF THE FINGERPOST. By Iain Pears. Riverhead Books: pp, $27 By ALFRED MAC ADAM March 8, 12 AM PT.
an instance of the fingerpost by Iain Pears ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 9, Nothing in Pears's five archly amusing art mysteries (Giotto's Hand, p. ; The Last Judgement, , etc.) hints at the range or depth or boldness of this multifaceted scrutiny of a murder case in Restoration Oxford. Iain Pears is a Coventry-born and Oxford-educated art historian and author of historical mysteries, and An Instance of the Fingerpost is his most famous novel. Good historians are not necessarily good authors and good authors are not necessarily good historians, but in Fingerpost Pears manages to strike a comfortable balance between both professions. An Instance of the Fingerpost First edition AuthorIain Pears CountryUnited Kingdom LanguageEnglish GenreHistorical, Mystery PublisherJonathan Cape Publication date September Media typePrint Pages pp ISBN OCLC An Instance of the Fingerpost is a historical mystery novel by Iain Pears.
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