Temples of fun
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Temples of fun
19.99 €
Kate Atkinson entered the major leagues of contemporary literature on her very first attempt: her debut novel, The Museum of My Secrets, won the prestigious Whitbread Prize, beating out Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh. And her series of novels about private detective Jackson Brodie, which has already become beloved by Russian readers (Crimes of the Past, A Turn for the Better, Should We Expect Good Tidings?, At Dawn, and The Big Sky), was dubbed by Stephen King "the most important detective project of the decade."
"Temples of Mirth is the British answer to The Great Gatsby," critics wrote, "laced with literary allusions to a host of masterpieces, from Shakespeare to T.S. Eliot." So, the year is 1926. The country hasn't yet fully recovered from the carnage of the Great War, but in London, the Jazz Age is reigning supreme. In Soho nightclubs, English peers rub shoulders with gangsters, and foreign dignitaries dance with starlets for a shilling a dance. The most fashionable clubs—the Amethyst, the Fairy, the Foxhole, the Sphinx, and the Crystal Bowl—are ruled by Nellie Cocker and her wayward children. But where success comes, there are enemies; Mrs. Cocker is no stranger to fending off threats, both external and internal, but now a mysterious adversary has set his sights on her entire empire—and, to top it all off, the police are drawing ever closer: it's her clubs that are being investigated in a series of mysterious disappearances of young women. Coincidence?
"Temples of Mirth is the British answer to The Great Gatsby," critics wrote, "laced with literary allusions to a host of masterpieces, from Shakespeare to T.S. Eliot." So, the year is 1926. The country hasn't yet fully recovered from the carnage of the Great War, but in London, the Jazz Age is reigning supreme. In Soho nightclubs, English peers rub shoulders with gangsters, and foreign dignitaries dance with starlets for a shilling a dance. The most fashionable clubs—the Amethyst, the Fairy, the Foxhole, the Sphinx, and the Crystal Bowl—are ruled by Nellie Cocker and her wayward children. But where success comes, there are enemies; Mrs. Cocker is no stranger to fending off threats, both external and internal, but now a mysterious adversary has set his sights on her entire empire—and, to top it all off, the police are drawing ever closer: it's her clubs that are being investigated in a series of mysterious disappearances of young women. Coincidence?
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