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Paris, 1911. Andre du Monde, director of a famous horror theater, has married a young girl from the country. As a child, Andre experienced something terrible. Now he can't be close to anyone except by frightening them. His wife is frightened too. Because Andre keeps telling her she's going to poison him... Alexander von Reisden, doctor to the mad and Andre's friend, seems to have outlived his own terrible past. He has a wife and a son, and work he loves. But now he has to help Andre, or lose everything. A man in love, a man afraid...a fight against terrible odds...a cursed film, a cursed love, and the shadows of war...A Citizen of the Country.

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Paris, 1911. Andre du Monde, director of a famous horror theater, has married a young girl from the country. As a child, Andre experienced something terrible. Now he can't be close to anyone except by frightening them. His wife is frightened too. Because Andre keeps telling her she's going to poison him... Alexander von Reisden, doctor to the mad and Andre's friend, seems to have outlived his own terrible past. He has a wife and a son, and work he loves. But now he has to help Andre, or lose everything. A man in love, a man afraid...a fight against terrible odds...a cursed film, a cursed love, and the shadows of war...A Citizen of the Country.

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A Citizen of the Country: Paris, 1911. Andre du Monde, director of a famous horror theater, has married a young girl from the country. As a child, Andre experienced something terrible. Now he can`t be close to anyone except by frightening them. His wife is frightened too. Because Andre keeps telling her she`s going to poison him... Alexander von Reisden, doctor to the mad and Andre`s friend, seems to have outlived his own terrible past. He has a wife and a son, and work he loves. But now he has to help Andre, or lose everything. A man in love, a man afraid...a fight against terrible odds...a cursed film, a cursed love, and the shadows of war...A Citizen of the Country. Englisch, Ebook.

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A man in love is a man afraid.Paris, 1911. André du Monde, director of a famous horror theater, has married a young girl from the country. As a child, André experienced something terrible. Now he can't be intimate with anyone except by frightening them. His wife is frightened too. Because André keeps telling her she's going to poison him...Alexander von Reisden, doctor to the mad and André's friend, seems to have outlived his own terrible past. He has a wife and a son, and work he loves. But now he has to help André, or lose everything too.A man in love, a man afraid...a fight against terrible odds...a cursed film, a cursed love, and the shadows of war...A Citizen of the Country.A virtuosic fusion of speculative history, boldly stylized character drawing, and intricately plotted rousing melodrama...Fiction just doesn't get any more entertaining and satisfying than this. A bloody triumph. - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)A seductive storyteller...Taking inspiration from the chalky hills, the Roman history, the witchcraft legends and local landmarks that would soon be reduced to rubble in the war, [Smith] finds the ideal setting for resolving the sad, strange mysteries that have haunted Reisden since childhood. - The New York Times Book ReviewStylish and literate... Readers will care about the splendidly realized characters, whose fates are decided in an eminently satisfying conclusion. - Publishers WeeklyThough full of authentic detail, this isn't a typical 'historical novel,' but rather proof that certain human conditions--the public and private face of heroism, the complicated love we feel for family--are the same no matter the century. - Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice)[Smith] fills the third installment with endlessly satisfying plot twists, historical verisimilitude, and character development--and still manages to keep her eye on the overarching question: not so much What country? as Where do I belong?...A Citizen of the Country illuminates a society on the brink, a way of life about to be lost forever...and one man's journey, by the hardest roads, home to his family. - Detroit Free Press (four stars)Think Poe, Agatha Christie, A Tale of Two Cities and Chinatown, and you have an idea of the mix that Smith juggles so delicately--and so well. - New York PostThe characters are so beguiling, the writing so evocative and detailed that one emerges from the books pages--and the ancient catacombs of Arras--as from a dark movie theater, surprised by daylight and the real world. - Orlando SentinelStunning...Sarah Smith skillfully takes readers into the dark world of the human psyche and spirit. - Romantic TimesAMANDA CROSS, acclaimed author of the Kate Fansler novels: Original, authentic, and engaging--combining warlike stirrings and the personal resurrection of the major characters in The Vanished Child and The Knowledge of Water...A remarkably clever conclusion to Smith's brilliant evocations of early twentieth-century France.ELLEN KUSHNER, host of Public Radio International's Sound & Spirit: I couldn't put it down!...A profound meditation on fathers and sons, family and belonging, with the suspense and excitement of a thriller.RAMSEY CAMPBELL, prizewinning author and critic: Not just an absorbing mystery tale that rises to heights of great suspense and terror, but a profound study of human relationships...[Sarah Smith's] understanding of people and their psychology never errs, and she communicates it in a prose of beautiful simplicity and clarity. Unmissable...a compelling read.LAURIE R. KING, Edgar-winning author of the Kate Martinelli and Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series: A dark tale for a dark time, an accounting of twists and turns through the mind's subterranean labyrinth, a tale of the goodness to be found in bad places, and the wickedness in the good.CHARLES TODD, author of the Inspector Ian Rutledge series: A fascinating and stylish tale of love, blackmail, madness, and witchcraft in France on the brink of World War One.NANCY THAYER: Reading Sarah Smith's A Citizen of the Country is like living in the eye of a spinning kaleidoscope. Audacious, lyrical, horrifying, heartbreaking, this novel is not only a brilliantly complicated mystery, but a complete world, from which we come away looking with wiser eyes at our own lives. Like Balzac or Zola, Sarah Smith dazzles.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, stressfreesalesUSA.
An eccentric Count who runs a famous Paris horror theatre, cursed with unexpected death . . . A beautiful young heiress and aspiring leading lady who just might be involved in the dark arts . . . An enigmatic gentleman whose shadowed past will at last be exposed. Their fates and hidden agendas intertwine in Sarah Smith’s compelling novel of an ancient house, dark arts, and love gone wrong–a murderous tale unfolding in the shadow of the guillotine. . . . , Mass Market Paperback, Label: Fawcett, Fawcett, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2003-01-01, Freigegeben: 2003-01-01, Studio: Fawcett, Verkaufsrang: 6305624.

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adaptations,contemporary,genre fiction,historical,humor and entertainment,literary,literature and fiction,movies,mystery,mystery thriller and suspense, Murder didn't define Alexander Reisden anymore," the narrator declares coyly on the first page of Sarah Smith's A Citizen of the Country, the final installment of her Vanished Child trilogy. But the truth is that Reisden, former Austrian spy and protective new father, is perpetually haunted by the consequences of having murdered his grandfather at age 8. Set in Paris and Flanders just before the outbreak of World War I, A Citizen of the Country is an intricately plotted, maddeningly complex novel that may frustrate readers who expect mysteries to deliver a corpse before delving into an exploration of motives. In A Citizen of the Country, competing motives are palpable if peculiarly unattached to a definite crime. The first corpse doesn't show up until page 81, for example, but we know intimately many creepy people capable of having poisoned Mlle. Fran�oise. Though A Citizen of the Country is unconventionally plotted (perhaps overplotted), it nevertheless spins a web of moral dilemmas that seem to trap the main characters between indecision and desire. The characters struggle mightily against the choices that their lives seem to impel them towards, and this is richly rewarding. In a novel brimming with deftly drawn personalities, Andr� de Montfort is the most compelling. Shut in at age 5 with his parents' decomposing corpses during a cholera outbreak, Andr�'s personality is subsequently macabre and imbalanced. His alter.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Fantastic Literature Ltd.
ballantine, 2003. 1st printing. Set within both the city of Paris and mysterious fictional Montfort Castle in Flanders on the eve of WWI, this stylish and literate historical drama rings down the curtain on Smith's popular trilogy. Paperback. fine paperback.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Ergodebooks.
Fawcett, 2003-01-01. Mass Market Paperback. Used:Good. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Ships Fast. 24*7 Customer Service.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Mozafamily.
Fawcett. MASS MARKET PAPERBACK. 0345433041 Paperback has edgewear and normal binding creases, small cover bends. . Good.