All Will Be Revealed

By Robert Anthony Siegel

Book Overview

An eccentric, exotic photographer is drawn to a beautiful psychic in a turn-of-the-century novel about love, possession, adventure, and greed. At the close of the nineteenth century, wheelchair-bound... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596922850
• ISBN13: 9781596922853
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: MacAdam/Cage
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent

Well-crafted and fascinating, I could not put this book down. Siegel's story is unique and the characters and story line drew me in.

All Will Be Revealed

Excellent read. Kept me up reading until my eyes blurred. Loved the ending. Thoroughly interesting characters.

Even better than his first novel.

A photographer who refuses to see people as anything more than the raw material for pictures. A spirit medium who has come to doubt the reality of her conversations with the dead. A deceased polar explorer who cannot quite bring himself to regret the journey that killed him. A disappointed lover who trains a performing bear to read minds. These are the characters that people the novel All Will Be Revealed. Set in New York City at the close of the 19th century, this wonderful novel explores the hidden connections between three Gilded Age obsessions: pornography, Spiritualism and Arctic exploration. In doing so, it threads its way among a series of dualities: spirit and flesh, imagination and reality, the human need for connection and the fear of losing oneself in the other. It is funny, sad, brilliant, and very beautiful, and I loved it more than anything I've read in years. If you buy just one book, it should be this one.

A Mesmerizing and Epic Story

Robert Anthony Siegel has created a mesmerizing and epic story out of three seemingly disparate but equally fascinating threads: spiritualism, arctic exploration, and Victorian-era pornography. He weaves these threads together with characters that are strikingly original and absolutely human. I felt that I had stepped into a completely different era, and I loved every minute of it. This novel marks a terrific literary accomplishment. I look forward to reading what Siegel writes next.

A spectacular exploration of character

All Will Be Revealed is a wonderful and unique novel that belongs in the same literary realm of Carson McCullers, Edith Wharton, and Flannery O'Connor. With the intuitive power of McCullers, the elegance of Wharton, and the strangeness of O'Connor, Siegel explores the ways his characters--Augustus Auerbach, Verena Swann and Theodore Swann--use pornography, spirit mediums and polar exploration as projections for their inability to truly love or mourn loss of ones they have loved. Entertaining, deeply felt, and beautifully written, All Will Be Revealed explores the ways people are afraid to reveal themselves to each other--and how they overcome these fears. It is a book wholly unique and immensely memorable; you will love it and recommend it to your friends. Bravo!