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Patrick's Alphabet (Paperback)

by Michael Symmons Roberts (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd (23 Mar 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0224075969
  • ISBN-13: 978-0224075961
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.6 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 644,216 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Barry Forshaw, Friday Express, 7 April 2006
Roberts never forgets that his principal responsibility is to keep us hooked – and that he does with aplomb.

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"Suitably disturbing and unsettling, and lingers long in the mind."

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5.0 out of 5 stars A multi-layered thriller, 28 Mar 2006
By Alan Garrow (Cuddesdon, OXON United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This is a darkly touching book. The landscape of the novel is almost unremittingly bleak, from the murder of a young couple on the opening page until the twenty-fifth of its twenty-six chapters. The twist is entirely thought-provoking and changes the way you see the world as well as making you want to read the novel again. A story that stays with you.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing and admirable, 16 Aug 2006
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This is a well written book about a photographer who follows a series of signs (the letters of the alphabet) left by a murderer. The writing is strongest in its evocation of anonymous English towns. It keeps you hooked, but by the end I felt the characters and relationships hadn't developed enough; for a literary novel, it seemed like it had too little to say. However, I liked this novel because it was an antidote to the steroidal type of genre thriller. It felt set in the real world, though the protagonist did make a living by selling gruesome photographs to local newspapers, which struck me as hard to believe.
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