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Glittering Images : A Novel by Susan Howatch (1995, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100449909808

ISBN-139780449909805

eBay Product ID (ePID)537117

Product Key Features

Book TitleGlittering Images : a Novel

Number of Pages448 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1995

TopicReligious, General, Thrillers / Historical, Historical

GenreFiction

AuthorSusan Howatch

Book SeriesStarbridge Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight13.5 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition20

Reviews"A Terrific Story...Glittering Images is driven by passion, emotional and spiritual, and its spiritual antagonists are brilliant characters." -- San Jose Mercury News "She May Well Be The Anthony Trollope Of The 20th Century." -- Andrew Greeley, The Washington Post "A Superior Novel." -- Publishers Weekly, "A Terrific Story...Glittering Images is driven by passion, emotional and spiritual, and its spiritual antagonists are brilliant characters." -- San Jose Mercury News "She May Well Be The Anthony Trollope Of The 20th Century." -- Andrew Greeley, The Washington Post "A Superior Novel." -- Publishers Weekly From the Trade Paperback edition.

Series Volume Number1

Dewey Decimal823.9/14

SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The first in Susan Howatch's acclaimed novels centering on the glorious Cathedral of Starbridge, Glittering Images is a masterful depiction of spiritual hubris, the seductions of power, and the moral dilemmas of England between the wars. "Passionately eloquent . . . A] tale of God, sex, love, self-analysis and forgiveness . . . The dialogue throughout this book is brilliantly crisp."-- The Philadelphia Inquirer It is the 1930s, and Charles Ashworth is dispatched by the Archbishop of Canterbury to learn the truth about the flamboyant Bishop of Starbridge, Adam Alexander Jardine, and his mousy wife. Do Jardine's outspoken denouncements of the Anglican Church's strict divorce laws have a personal motive? When he meets the cool and beautiful Lyle Christie, Mrs. Jardine's companion, Ashworth believes they do. But as he struggles to understand the strange relationships in the household, Ashworth ceases to be an innocent, objective observer. Slowly, he too is drawn into the secret drama that is being played out in the shadow of the cathedral, a drama that he could never have foreseen. Praise for Glittering Images "A terrific story . . . Glittering Images is driven by passion, emotional and spiritual, and its spiritual antagonists are brilliant characters." -- San Jose Mercury News "She may well be the Anthony Trollope of the 20th century." --Andrew Greeley, The Washington Post "Bold and exciting." -- Los Angeles Times, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The first in Susan Howatch's acclaimed novels centering on the glorious Cathedral of Starbridge, Glittering Images is a masterful depiction of spiritual hubris, the seductions of power, and the moral dilemmas of England between the wars. "Passionately eloquent . . . [A] tale of God, sex, love, self-analysis and forgiveness . . . The dialogue throughout this book is brilliantly crisp."-- The Philadelphia Inquirer It is the 1930s, and Charles Ashworth is dispatched by the Archbishop of Canterbury to learn the truth about the flamboyant Bishop of Starbridge, Adam Alexander Jardine, and his mousy wife. Do Jardine's outspoken denouncements of the Anglican Church's strict divorce laws have a personal motive? When he meets the cool and beautiful Lyle Christie, Mrs. Jardine's companion, Ashworth believes they do. But as he struggles to understand the strange relationships in the household, Ashworth ceases to be an innocent, objective observer. Slowly, he too is drawn into the secret drama that is being played out in the shadow of the cathedral, a drama that he could never have foreseen. Praise for Glittering Images "A terrific story . . . Glittering Images is driven by passion, emotional and spiritual, and its spiritual antagonists are brilliant characters." -- San Jose Mercury News "She may well be the Anthony Trollope of the 20th century." --Andrew Greeley, The Washington Post "Bold and exciting." -- Los Angeles Times