- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Scribner; First Edition edition (5 Jun 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0743252292
- ISBN-13: 978-0743252294
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.6 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,324,618 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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India, the 1940s: a time of political turmoil and violence; a country on the verge of its tryst with destiny. Ross Monroe is a boxer, a Catholic and an Anglo-Indian - part of the race which for years has run the administrative side of the Raj for the British. From the brutal boarding school of his childhood, through youth in the Indian Air Force and manhood on the Railways, Ross is sustained by a single dream: to box his way to Olympic victory - until a devastating betrayal by an Englishman sends him into exile, and an obsession which will change his life forever...In present-day England, Owen Monroe, aspiring novelist, is writing the story of his father's life in an attempt to avoid confronting the problems in his own. But family chronicle turns to amateur sleuthing when a chance discovery in a second-hand bookshop provides a clue to the whereabouts to his father's long-lost enemy. The quest that follows takes Owen through the secrets of the Monroe past and into a love affair he could never have thought possible...The Bloodstone Papers pits memory against fiction, love against loss and the certainties of past against the ambiguities of the present - but at its core remains a testament to history's ability, whether we like it or not, to catch up with us. It is a major achievement from one of Britain's most acclaimed psychological novelists.
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Glen Duncan's previously acclaimed novels are I, LUCIFER; LOVE REMAINS; and HOPE. He lives in South London.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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I've now read all of Glen Duncan's books except the latest (with favourite authors I always try to keep at least one in reserve). The only question I have is - why is he not feted along with lesser writers such as Will Self, Martin Amis and others? There's nothing he can't do - hyper-realism, magic realism, surrealism, realism. Every book is different from the last in terms of subject matter, but his underlying concerns remain the same; the search for love in all its forms. I think for most people this book would be a good starting point - the narrative is relatively straightforward, and the structure is pretty simple. Revel in the beauty of the prose, and the Dickensian quality of his understanding of human nature.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Really poignant book flipping between the lives of father and son, how though the times have changed, God, destiny and fate plays it's funny game. Emotively written, honest and powerful - pretty much a perfect read.
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Many of Duncan's favourite themes - there's always that lost love, always the edge of kinkiness. Some of the most memorable and beautiful phrases in his career - Pasha 'sails his archipelago of kips', and his libidinal flag will still flutter in the right oestral breeze (or something like that). Vividly visual, and so observant, so clever ('a Radio 4-style self-congratulatory side-stepping of the obvious'). Excellent as always in conveying that peculiar ease of a good friendship. Also on the way our own egos and libidos distort our perceptions of cities, deities, activities, objects, motivating us in strange and exhilarating ways which are then lost, in a moment's Gestalt switch, forever. Anything pursued to escape the self leads back to the self. A gimlet, but forgiving, eye cast upon his parents: the way siblings all drift from mother because they have all irrevocably realised she cultivates an ugly self-pity, an apathy. The 'flotsam' of family memories. And, perhaps most importantly, being Anglo-Indian: you can really begin to flesh out that niche, sense all the boundaries of that difference. As usual - but differently - it's bleddy good.
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