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Chargement... The Abominable: A Novel (édition 2013)par Dan Simmons
Information sur l'oeuvreL'Abominable par Dan Simmons
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Ce roman de Dan Simmons est dans la même veine que Terreur, Drood et Collines noires du même auteur, à savoir des romans qui empruntent une part d'histoire au réel et dans lesquels l'auteur imagine une explication plausible à des faits demeurés inexpliqués. Sa plume est toujours aussi affûtée et l'auteur nous entraîne encore une fois avec lui pour suivre ses personnages, qui prennent vie sous nos yeux, dans des aventures qu'il rend crédibles, intéressantes et pleines de suspense. Un plaisir de lecture, encore une fois ! ( )
Simmons (The Terror, 2007, etc.) never met an opportunity for allusive terror that he didn’t like, and though his latest is set mostly in the Himalayas, he pays quiet tribute to Poe’s Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym and perhaps Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, with a dash of Raiders of the Lost Ark for leavening. Even Jake Perry, the fictional travelogue author Dan Simmons “meets” in his latest novel, jokes that his reader may not make it through this “endless stack of notebooks.” But lovers of Simmons’s blend of alternate history, mystery, and myth will appreciate this three-act thriller set in the interwar years.... As usual, Simmons doesn’t answer all the questions he’s raised when the mysteries surrounding the loss of Percy Bromley are resolved, but his fans, like Jake, are sure to enjoy the journey. Prix et récompenses
June 1924. On the brutal North East Ridge of Mount Everest, famous adventurers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine vanish into the snow-whipped night. Daredevil explorer Richard Deacon devises a plan to follow in the men's footsteps, accompanied only by two friends. Off piste and with no support team, the three men strike for Everest's peak and the most vicious climate on earth. As the winds rise and the temperature and oxygen levels drop, Deacon and his companions hear howls in the distance. Some dark creature is tracking them up the mountain, sending them scrabbling blindly into Everest's dangerous heights to escape it. Soon they will discover what happened to Mallory's crew - but can they escape the same hideous fate? A gripping thriller by a master of the genre, The Abominable blends historical fact with spine-tingling drama - this is one of the most chilling and unforgettable novels you will ever read. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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