Hide Me Among the Graves: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (759 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B005O062FS |
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| Number of Pages | : | 499 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Another Stunning Secret History from Powers" according to Anastasia McPherson. Tim Powers sets many of his novels of the fantastic amidst historical events and personages and then tells the tale of a secret history of supernatural tragedy supported by the actual words of the writers in letters and poetry that precede each chapter. It is quite a trick and most would be advised not to try this at home, but Powers always succeeds and sometimes he succeeds brilliantly. Hide Me Among the G. Powers tale of bloody kinship tugs Vlad's tail Although I 'loved' Hammer Films Dracula series, vampire stories didn't draw me. It was just those lusty ladies. Tim Powers turns the whole upside down to give us women as the effective foes of blood suckers, with the assistance of a gentle vet. Tim's dark villains are also more seductive, less toothy and far older than Vlad, with temptations offering creativity and fame rather than merely sexual adventures.. "Interesting and creepy" according to Kay L. Ling. I enjoyed this book but had trouble keeping the characters straight, and I didn't feel attached to any of the main characters. The concept and ideas were interesting, and that's what kept me reading.
B+.” (Entertainment Weekly )“An intense, downhill-race of a story the summer sleeper hit of 2006.” (Denver Post )“A stellar supernatural thriller.…Powers works an impressively original variation on the vampire theme.The meticulous attention to historical and literary detail grounds the story solidly in its period and enhances its imaginative reach.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review) on HIDE ME AMONG THE GRAVES )“A wild and wooly romp-fun.” (Library Journal )“Almost despite its wonderful weirdness, this thriller moves at a frantic clip the very outlandishness of Powers’s metaphysics makes the story all the more compelling.” (Booklist )“Machiavellian An astonishingly sophisticated and engrossing narrative.” (Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“A writer of extraord
With Hide Me Among the Graves, it’s possible that the uniquely ingenious Powers has surpassed even himself. From Last Call to On Stranger Tides to Declare to Three Days to Never, any book by the inimitable Tim Powers is a wonder. A breathtaking historical thriller in which art and the supernatural collide, Hide Me Among the Graves transports readers back to mid-19th century London and features a reformed ex-prostitute, a veterinarian, and the vampire ghost of Lord Byron’s onetime physician, uncle to poet Christina Rossetti and her brother, the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A novel that, like all his others, is virtually impossible to pidgeonhole—or to resist—Hide Me Among the Graves is the taut, gripping, and utterly remarkable literary thrill ride that Tim Powers fans have been eagerly waiting for.