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Hawksmoor
Hawksmoor
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Hawksmoor is a 1985 novel by the English writer Peter Ackroyd. It won Best Novel at the 1985 Whitbread Awards and the Guardian Fiction Prize. It tells the parallel stories of Nicholas Dyer, who builds seven churches in 18th-century London for which he needs human sacrifices, and Nicholas Hawksmoor, detective in the 1980s, who investigat...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780349100579
ISBN-10: 0349100578
Publication Date: 1986
Pages: 224
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3 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: Abacus Software
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
Members Wishing: 2
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I am not really sure how I feel about this book. First of all, it was hard to get into after enjoying so much the book I read before this one. And while the premise of _Hawksmoor_ was quite interesting and its writing style and structure was quite different from anything else I have read, I just don't know why it took me so long to read such a short book. It was only 217 pages and it felt much longer! I think that I would like to re-read this book at some point though, because it certainly was entertaining, just very densely written. And it really reminded me of a movie that I saw a long time ago....
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