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The Architecture of Desire (Hardcover)

by Mary Gentle (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 249 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam Press; First Edition edition (8 Aug 1991)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0593019520
  • ISBN-13: 978-0593019528
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,945,248 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A novel of comedy and tragedy, set in Puritan London, by the author of "Rats and Gargoyles". Mercenaries in lace and steel roam the countryside and the heads of criminals are impaled on London Bridge. The characters' relationships are played out in the shadow of the hangman's rope.

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5.0 out of 5 stars great follow-up to rats and gargoyles, 21 Jan 2000
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This review is from: Architecture of Desire (Mass Market Paperback)
The characters in Rats and Gargoyles show up in or about the time of the English Civil War (more or less). Yes, there is little continuity with the last book. Gentle seems to have taken a page from the work of Michael Moorcock here, putting her characters through some kind of timeshift. The cosmic nature of the ending of Rats and Gargoyles makes it clear that just about anything goes, metaphysically speaking, so the reolocation does not jar; rather, it is intriguing. So well drawn are her characters that they work equally well in either Rats and Gargoyles' higher fantasy or the more mature gritty reality of The Architecture of Desire. A disturbing tale for mature readers.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Book didn't live up to promise of Rats & Gargoyles, 29 Sep 1998
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This review is from: Architecture of Desire (Mass Market Paperback)
Rats & Gargoyles presented an alternative univererse with a wide variety of sympathetic and yet difficult characters. Its emphasis on urban life and its center, literally the dwelling place of the gods, is flipped into a decaying destructive core in the Architecture of Desire and is now anachronistically positioned in Cromwell's England. The characters which were sympathetic are now not only capable but do commit crimes of the heart and body.

The net effect is a shallower novel than the original and one which allows for no continuity with the larger opus although it uses the same characters.

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