Rustication

by Charles Palliser

Book Overview

Charles Palliser's work has been hailed as "so compulsively absorbing that reality disappears" (New York Times). Since his extraordinary debut, The Quincunx, his works have sold over one million copies worldwide. With his new novel, Rustication, he returns to the town of Thurchester, which he evoked so hauntingly in The Unburied.

It is winter 1863, and Richard Shenstone, aged seventeen, has been sent down--"rusticated"--from Cambridge under a cloud...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393088723
• ISBN13: 9780393088724
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.5"