Help! My wish list #13
One more title from my ever-expanding reading wish list. ** The cover image is for illustrative purposes only. If you are a publisher and would kindly like to offer me a copy of this book for review, I will change the cover so as to reflect the edition received. ** Mr Dick or the Tenth Book By Jean-Pierre Ohl Dedalus product description: Jean-Pierre Ohl's brilliantly inventive debut novel is inspired by Charles Dickens's last work, The Mystery of Edwin Drood , left incomplete, and the mystery unresolved, on the author's death in 1870. Ohl’s narrator, Francois Daumal nurtures a passion for Dickens. From the moment his young eyes first light on the opening line of David Copperfield - ‘Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages will show’ – he is addicted. He systematically devours everything Dickens ever wrote, and develops a particular obsession with Edwin Drood. He becomes an expert on the subj...