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A carregar... The Rich Man's Housepor Andrew McGahan
   Nenhum(a) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.   ) JuliaMay | Dec 10, 2020 |  He tells the tale of a super-wealthy man who is the only person to have climbed the world's highest mountain. (No, it's not Everest, you'll have to read the book). Bring into the tale a woman with a curious past, where she once wrote a book about the "presences" that could be found in natural phenomena, ignoring the fact that LSD and cocaine were useful in discovering and dealing with them, and it becomes clear that the Rich Man wants to clear his new, fabulously extravagant home of all pesky, potential "presences". It doesn't quite work out as he might hope it will. The author notes in a preface that he was rushed to complete this novel, and there are some passages that really could do with some editing. But, all in all, it's a rollicking adventure, and so different to anything else he published. It's worth reading, but not as good as 'The Good Earth', 'Last Drinks' or 'Praise'. Vale, Andrew. Thank you. (  ) buttsy1 | Feb 22, 2020 | sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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In the freezing Antarctic waters south of Tasmania, a mountain was discovered in 1642 by the seafaring explorer Gerrit Jansz. Not just any mountain but one that Jansz estimated was an unbelievable height of twenty-five thousand metres. In 2016, at the foot of this unearthly mountain, a controversial and ambitious 'dream home', the Observatory, is painstakingly constructed by an eccentric billionaire - the only man to have ever reached the summit. Rita Gausse, estranged daughter of the architect who designed the Observatory is surprised, upon her father's death, to be invited to the isolated mansion to meet the famously reclusive owner, Walter Richman. But from the beginning, something doesn't feel right. Why is Richman so insistent that she come? What does he expect of her? When cataclysmic circumstances intervene to trap Rita and a handful of other guests in the Observatory, cut off from the outside world, she slowly begins to learn the unsettling - and ultimately horrifying - answers. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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