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050	0	0	_aPR6057.O33 _bB67 2006
082	0	0	_aMYS GOD
100	1		_aGoddard, Robert
245	1	0	_aBorrowed time _c/ Robert Goddard.
250			_aDelta trade pbk. ed.
260			_aNew York _b: Delta Trade Paperbacks _c, 2006.
300			_ax, 397, [21] p. _c; 23 cm.
520			_aLong 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.
650			_aMurder _v--Fiction
650		0	_aBusinessmen _x--Fiction
651		4	_aWales _x--Fiction
651			_aEngland _v--Fiction
655		7	_aSuspense fiction
655		7	_aMystery fiction
942			_cMO
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