The first verse: a novel
"This is a chilling and fast paced debut novel about one gay man's obsession with reading and how it drags him into a mysterious cult. Irish college student Niall Lenihan feels like an outsider when he first arrives on campus at Trinity College. He soon becomes mesmerized by a man and woma...
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Carroll & Graf
2005
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| Summary: | "This is a chilling and fast paced debut novel about one gay man's obsession with reading and how it drags him into a mysterious cult. Irish college student Niall Lenihan feels like an outsider when he first arrives on campus at Trinity College. He soon becomes mesmerized by a man and woman he sees playing an odd "game" in which they ask a question and then blindly open a book and read the first passage they see for an answer to that question." From the bookjacket. |
| Physical Description: | 355 S. |
| ISBN: | 0786715138 |
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