Hawksmoor
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight.
A masterwork of postmodern Gothic fiction, Hawksmoor weaves together two narratives separated by centuries — one following Nicholas Dyer, an 18th-century architect who secretly consecrates his London churches with occult rituals and human sacrifice, and the other chronicling a modern-day detective named Nicholas Hawksmoor, who investigates a series of murders occurring at those very same churches. Peter Ackroyd constructs a deeply unsettling atmosphere in which time collapses and history repeats itself with sinister precision, blurring the boundary between past and present until the two storylines mirror each other in haunting and inexplicable ways. The novel argues that London itself is a living palimpsest, layered with darkness and ritual that no amount of modernity can fully erase. Written in a dual prose style — archaic and richly textured for the 18th-century sections, stark and procedural for the contemporary ones — the narrative illustrates Ackroyd's extraordinary command of voice and period. Suspenseful, erudite, and deeply atmospheric, Hawksmoor stands as one of the most compelling works of British literary fiction of the 20th century.
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Format: Hardback
Published: 1985, Hamish Hamilton
Genre: Crime fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight.
A masterwork of postmodern Gothic fiction, Hawksmoor weaves together two narratives separated by centuries — one following Nicholas Dyer, an 18th-century architect who secretly consecrates his London churches with occult rituals and human sacrifice, and the other chronicling a modern-day detective named Nicholas Hawksmoor, who investigates a series of murders occurring at those very same churches. Peter Ackroyd constructs a deeply unsettling atmosphere in which time collapses and history repeats itself with sinister precision, blurring the boundary between past and present until the two storylines mirror each other in haunting and inexplicable ways. The novel argues that London itself is a living palimpsest, layered with darkness and ritual that no amount of modernity can fully erase. Written in a dual prose style — archaic and richly textured for the 18th-century sections, stark and procedural for the contemporary ones — the narrative illustrates Ackroyd's extraordinary command of voice and period. Suspenseful, erudite, and deeply atmospheric, Hawksmoor stands as one of the most compelling works of British literary fiction of the 20th century.