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The definitive novel about celebrity grave-robbing: completely original, very black, and very funny.
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Jay Mason is experiencing a crisis of faith. Disillusioned with his calling as a Deacon in the Anglican Church of Geneva, and estranged from his pregnant girlfriend, he's about to fall into the murky world of celebrity grave-robbing. His church has been bought by the shadowy antiquities dealer Joseph Moholy, who arrives to claim its most interesting asset: the toe bone of Thomas - Becket. Moholy has a large collection of dubiously acquired relics and is keen to add to his collection. Jay, he decides, is the man to assist him. Jay finds that grave-robbing can be both lucrative and thrilling, however morally troubling for a man of God, and in Switzerland's cemeteries he finds a rich cast to work on: James Joyce, Richard Burton, John Calvin and Charlie Chaplin all receive his midnight attentions. But Moholy is a ruthless man whose ambitions are perilously high, and as Jay assists him in his search for the holy grail of relics, he puts himself and his loved ones in serious danger. (20040624)
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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In this stylish book, real character is born. The deliciously gauche narrator, an envoy of a very English God, is caught up in a labyrinth that is celebratory, sinister, divine and sordid. He wants to be holistic but he cannot help but be conventional, as he battles a personification of temptation. The book is a fusion of the alien and the familiar. We recognise the hunter, but we are as lost as he is in his habitat of carefully crafted ruses. Beard reveals himself to be a master of Gothic deferral, in which provocation is laced with good humour. This is the warmest midnight ever evoked in literature. The diabolical is made affable and cosy and this instils a faith in the superficial, in the attraction of soil over sky. Despite serious literary homage throughout the work, this is unlike anything else I have ever read. Read this, disable landscape, and enrich yourselves with a most uncomfortable identifying phosphorescence and alchemy. This is intelligence for the everyman, friendly and accessible and hopeful, a pilgrimage of all sorts. Beard's novel is craft and history and theology and fraternity, at turns of the labyrinth both sparse and evocative. Follow the deacon along a possibly ill-chosen and ill-judged path, for there is an intricate architecture to pilgrimage. A strange, beautiful and necessarily secret masterpiece. Be in on it.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
In this stylish book, real character is born. The deliciously gauche narrator, an envoy of a very English God, is caught up in a labyrinth that is celebratory, sinister, divine and sordid. He wants to be holistic but he cannot help but be conventional, as he battles a personification of temptation. The book is a fusion of the alien and the familiar. We recognise the hunter, but we are as lost as he is in his habitat of carefully crafted ruses. Beard reveals himself to be a master of Gothic deferral, in which provocation is laced with good humour. This is the warmest midnight ever evoked in literature. The diabolical is made affable and cosy and this instils a faith in the superficial, in the attraction of soil over sky. Despite serious literary homage throughout the work, this is unlike anything else I have ever read. Read this, disable landscape, and enrich yourselves with a most uncomfortable identifying phosphorescence and alchemy. This is intelligence for the everyman, friendly and accessible and hopeful, a pilgrimage of all sorts. Beard's novel is craft and history and theology and fraternity, at turns of the labyrinth both sparse and evocative. Follow the deacon along a possibly ill-chosen and ill-judged path, for there is an intricate architecture to pilgrimage. A strange, beautiful and necessarily secret masterpiece. Be in on it.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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In this stylish book, real character is born. The deliciously gauchenarrator, an envoy of a very English God, is caught up in a labyrinth thatis celebratory, sinister, divine and sordid. He wants to be holistic buthe cannot help but be conventional, as he battles a personification oftemptation The book is a fusion of the alien and the familiar. Werecognise the hunter, but we are as lost as he is in his habitat ofcarefully crafted ruses. Beard reveals himself to be a master of Gothicdeferral, in which provocation is laced with good humour. This is thewarmest midnight ever evoked in literature. The diabolical is made affableand cosy and this instils a faith in the superficial, in the attraction ofsoil over sky. Despite serious literary homage throughout the work, thisis unlike anything else I have ever read. Read this, disable landscape,and enrich yourselves with a most uncomfortable identifyingphosphorescence and alchemy. This is intelligence for the everyman,friendly and accessible and hopeful, a pilgrimage of all sorts. Beard’snovel is craft and history and theology and fraternity, at turns of thelabyrinth both sparse and evocative. Follow the deacon along a possiblyill-chosen and ill-judged path, for there is an intricate architecture topilgrimage. A strange, beautiful and necessarily secret masterpiece. Be inon it.
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