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The Resurrectionist | 
 enlarge | Author: James Bradley
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Category: Book
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Rating:  50 reviews
Sales Rank: 1840
Media: Paperback
Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 1
ISBN: 0571232760
EAN: 9780571232765
ASIN: 0571232760
Publication Date: June 19, 2008
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 Outstanding June 20, 2008
James Wilson
46 out of 61 found this review helpful
This is a terrific book: a dark, compelling gothic thriller that - like Frankenstein and Jekyll and Hyde - explores profound questions about what it is to be human. What really sets it apart from most historical fiction is the vivid, muscular prose, which perfectly evokes the atmosphere of early nineteenth-century London (and Australia) without ever sounding remotely like a pastiche, and gives the story of Gabriel Swift's descent into nightmare and (partial) reawakening an almost mythic power. Highly recommended!
Resurrectionist June 28, 2008
Harry Parsons
21 out of 28 found this review helpful
James Bradley has succeeded in creating one of the creepiest novels I have ever read. If you like really dark shady characters then this should be right up your street. I was hooked on this right from the start. Probably the most chilling read I've had this year. Not for the faint-hearted though!
Tales from the Dark side July 5, 2008
Tony D (Holyhead)
18 out of 24 found this review helpful
This scared the pants off me, a brilliant old fashioned gothic tale. The characters are grim but believable, the setting is described with expertise, it makes your skin crawl and your senses tingle as only a great writer can do. It deserves all the aclaim it is recieving. Brilliant.
Pitch perfect June 19, 2008
R. Dinsdale (London)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
James Bradley's portrait of one man's descent into a hell of his own making, and his seduction by the darker side of life, has left me reeling. Gabriel Swift arrives in London in 1826 to work alongside one of the city's great anatomists, preparing corpses for lecture - but his increasing involvement with the resurrectionists of the book's title sets him on a different path. At once a claustrophic page-turner, there's something unusually classical here as well - the novel is Dickensian in its detail, and its characters often feel as if they walked straight out of a Shakespearean tragedy into the underside of 1820s London. Lucan, overlord of the city's illegal trade in human bodies, is majestically drawn - but it's Gabriel's slow slide away from innocence, and the way Bradley twists and plays with the reader's sympathy, that truly haunts. The moment when the reader finally understands how far Gabriel has come, how the city has corrupted him, how he has been touched and tainted by the things he has seen and done, comes upon you so viciously and abruptly that it's a moment I'm still brooding on.
Deeply addictive - and one of the most pleasingly unsettling novels I've read in years.
Artfully subtle and demanding the reader work a little August 12, 2008
notcruella (UK)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was a bit concerned upon reading other reviews of this novel that it would be a disappointment and some kind of stylish book with little substance. I was more than pleasantly surprised. I began reading this morning and was literally unable to stop. This novel is utterly gripping. True, there are not lengthy back stories for the many characters the narrator encounters in his fall from grace. However, I firmly believe that this was intentional upon the part of the author - it is skilfully written to include enough detail that the reader can fill in the gaps and imagine the lives of those people with far more colour and satisfaction than spoonfed descriptions would allow.
The action is not entirely linear in keeping with it being a narrative from a singular voice - and one that becomes an addict at that. Far from being a negative point, this makes it all the more interesting as again the reader has to put a little effort into keeping up with the quick pace of this flawed man's decline.
If you require a book to give you every last detail, deny you the right to join the author in invention and provide escapism without effort then 'The Resurrectionist' is not for you. However, if you enjoy something which gives you food for thought, demands complicity with the author to enter the depths he invites you to and allows something beyond the norm then this beautifully written book is a must. I cannot rate it highly enough. Along with 'The Book Thief', it is the best reading experience I have had this year.
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