The Saint Zita Society
(Sprache: Englisch)
Ruth Rendell's new psychological thriller is a gripping examination of society. And the darkness is never far away . . .
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Ruth Rendell's new psychological thriller is a gripping examination of society. And the darkness is never far away . . .
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'Someone had told Dex that the Queen lived in Victoria. So did he, but she had a palace and he had one room in a street off Warwick Way. Still he liked the idea that she was his neighbour.'Dex works as a gardener for Dr Jefferson at his home on Hexam Place in Pimlico: an exclusive street of white-painted stucco Georgian houses inhabited by the rich, and serviced by the not so rich. The hired help, a motley assortment of au pairs , drivers and cleaners, decide to form the St Zita Society (Zita was the patron saint of domestic servants) as an excuse to meet at the local pub and air their grievances.
When Dex is invited to attend one of these meetings, the others find that he is a strange man, seemingly ill at ease with human beings. These first impressions are compounded when they discover he has recently been released from a hospital for the criminally insane, where he was incarcerated for attempting to kill his own mother. Dex's most meaningful relationship seems to be with his mobile phone service provider, Peach, and he interprets the text notifications and messages he receives from the company as a reassuring sign that there is some kind of god who will protect him. And give him instructions about ridding the world of evil spirits . . .
Accidental death and pathological madness cohabit above and below stairs in Hexam Place.
Autoren-Porträt von Ruth Rendell
Ruth Rendell is the Queen of British crime writing. The author of over 50 novels, she has won many significant crime fiction awards. Her first novel, From Doon With Death, appeared in 1964, and since then her reputation and readership have grown steadily with each new book. She has received major awards for her work; three Edgars from the Mystery Writers of America; the Crime Writers' Gold Dagger Award for 1976's best crime novel, A Demon in My View; the Arts Council National Book Award for Genre Fiction in 1981 for The Lake of Darkness; the Crime Writer's Gold Dagger Award for 1986's best crime book for Live Flesh; in 1987 the Crime Writer's Gold Dagger Award for A Fatal Inversion and in 1991 the same award for King Solomon's Carpet, both written under the pseudonym Barbara Vine; the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990; and in 1991 the Crime Writer's Cartier Diamond Award for outstanding contribution to the crime fiction genre. Her books are translated into 21 languages. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Ruth Rendell
- 2012, 288 Seiten, Maße: 15,4 x 23,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Hutchinson
- ISBN-10: 0091944058
- ISBN-13: 9780091944056
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „The Saint Zita Society “
"Rendell's prose style is unadorned, but she uses it to create memorable characters and nail-biting suspense." Sunday Times 20120708 "Rendell is excellent on the delicate snobbery of the uneasy territory in between the social classes." Independent "A superbly executed ensemble piece set in an exclusive street in Pimlico, home to the rich and privileged and those who supply their daily wants and needs ... Psychodramas abound and, as always, Rendell excels at detailing misunderstandings, paranoia, subtle power-shifts and the laws of unintended consequences ... a fascinating murder mystery." Guardian "There are quite a few Ruth Rendells: the doyenne of the traditional English detective novel; the queen of the psychological thriller; the celebrated author of the literary thriller; and her most recent incarnation, as a writer of blackly comic fairy tales set in London." Mail on Sunday "Rendell is brilliant at showing how proximity and distance can co-exist; how people's lives can intersect in a practical sense without ever really touching in any meaningful way ... Dramatic tension is building right from the start of this powerful novel ... Many authors have written successfully about events spiralling out of control but Rendell's area of expertise is the deluded patterns human beings try to impose on the chaos of life and their true selves which are far more frightening than unchecked mayhem." Sunday Express 20120701
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