A dark satire set in Edinburgh, from the author of the highly-acclaimed The Pied Piper's Poison. * Mediocre PR consultant Charles Kidd might just have found his meal ticket. With brilliant, charming new client Peter Dexter's plans for the ultimate fringe spectacular at this year's Edinburgh Festival, it would appear that Charles finally has the chance to be somebody, to make a splash. * But in a city whose murky past is filled with graverobbers, mad, murderous scientists, charlatans and showmen, this particular image ...
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A dark satire set in Edinburgh, from the author of the highly-acclaimed The Pied Piper's Poison. * Mediocre PR consultant Charles Kidd might just have found his meal ticket. With brilliant, charming new client Peter Dexter's plans for the ultimate fringe spectacular at this year's Edinburgh Festival, it would appear that Charles finally has the chance to be somebody, to make a splash. * But in a city whose murky past is filled with graverobbers, mad, murderous scientists, charlatans and showmen, this particular image consultant would do well to look past the sheen of his new star customer, beyond a polished performance which cloaks a more sinister, manipulative purpose...* With consummate skill, Christopher Wallace weaves a tale full of invention, ambiguity, unease and menace.
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Grubby book may have mild dirt or some staining, mostly on the edges of pages.
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Very Good. No Jacket as Issued. BE2-A trade paperback withdrawn ex-library book in very good-condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with very minor overall shelf wear with clear plastic tape reinforcing the right corners of the front cover plus there is some very light creasing on the spine plus there are the ususal library stamps on the title page and the back endpaper. A novel that mixes the history of Edinburgh's grave robbers of the early 19th century with the culture of contemporary performance art and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In 1829 a medical doctor developes a device that extracts and preserves the souls of the recently dead, mostly of grave-robbed bodies, for future use in experiments on other patients. In 1999 the device turns up in public as part of a piece of performance art which the artist calles "Resurrectionist Expression." By the author of "The Pied Piper's Poison." Acknowledgments, 233p.
