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THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER AND AWARD-WINNING RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK Repackaged as part of the Perennial fiction promotion. England 1819:Thomas Shield, a new master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the boy's sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Drawn to Frant's beautiful, unhappy mother, Thomas becomes caught up in her family's twisted intrigues. Then a brutal crime is committed, with consequences that threaten to destroy Thomas and all that he has come to dearly value. Despite his efforts, Shield is caught up in a deadly tangle of sex, money, murder and lies - a tangle that grips him even tighter as he tries to escape from it. And what of the strange American child, at the heart of these macabre events - what is the secret of the boy named Edgar Allan Poe?Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-139780007791514
eBay Product ID (ePID)114005403
Product Key Features
Publication Year2007
TopicBooks
Book TitleThe American Boy
Number of Pages512 Pages
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistorical
AuthorAndrew Taylor
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height198 mm
Item Width129 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorAndrew Taylor