Borrowed time
Goddard, Robert
Borrowed time / Robert Goddard. - Delta trade pbk. ed. - New York : Delta Trade Paperbacks , 2006. - x, 397, [21] p. ; 23 cm.
Long ago, Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) totally hoodwinked this reviewer, who has since been suspicious of any mystery written in the first person. This distrust was intensified by Nicholas Farrell's seemingly innocent interpretation of Robin Timariot, the protagonist of Borrowed Time. Is he the honest, ingenuous Englishman he seems? Or is he capable of complex lies, rape, and murder? Farrell's outstanding reading is as ambiguous as the story is layered. Initially, his neutral tones introduce a colorless, joyless government employee. Yet Timariot meets a lovely woman on the evening of her murder, and his emotions are stirred by her beauty and, later, by horror at hearing of her rape and murder. Even though he is unable to adequately explain his obsession with the dead woman and her family, his subsequent involvement in their lives brings some meaning to his.
9780385339223
2006272446
Murder----Fiction
Businessmen----Fiction
Wales----Fiction
England----Fiction
Suspense fiction
Mystery fiction
PR6057.O33 / B67 2006
MYS GOD
Borrowed time / Robert Goddard. - Delta trade pbk. ed. - New York : Delta Trade Paperbacks , 2006. - x, 397, [21] p. ; 23 cm.
Long ago, Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) totally hoodwinked this reviewer, who has since been suspicious of any mystery written in the first person. This distrust was intensified by Nicholas Farrell's seemingly innocent interpretation of Robin Timariot, the protagonist of Borrowed Time. Is he the honest, ingenuous Englishman he seems? Or is he capable of complex lies, rape, and murder? Farrell's outstanding reading is as ambiguous as the story is layered. Initially, his neutral tones introduce a colorless, joyless government employee. Yet Timariot meets a lovely woman on the evening of her murder, and his emotions are stirred by her beauty and, later, by horror at hearing of her rape and murder. Even though he is unable to adequately explain his obsession with the dead woman and her family, his subsequent involvement in their lives brings some meaning to his.
9780385339223
2006272446
Murder----Fiction
Businessmen----Fiction
Wales----Fiction
England----Fiction
Suspense fiction
Mystery fiction
PR6057.O33 / B67 2006
MYS GOD
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