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The Thief of Time

The Thief of Time

by JohnBoyne (Author)

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    Paperback 2001

    $15.29

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    Paperback 2008

    $25.85
Synopsis

It is 1758 and Matthieu Zela is fleeing Paris for Dover, having witnessed the murder of his mother by his stepfather and his subsequent execution for that crime. With Matthieu is his five year old brother Tomas and his companion and 'one true love', Dominique Sauvet. What follows is the story of Matthieu's life. Beginning in murder and ending in redemption, Matthieu's life is characterised by one extraordinary fact: before the eighteenth century ends, he discovers that his body has stopped ageing. At the end of the twentieth century, he is able to look back on a life lived to the full. He has been an engineer, a rogue, a movie mogul, a soldier, a financier, a lover to many, a cable TV executive and more. The tale of his life involves murder, love, treachery, despair, passion, glamour, and, ultimately hope.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 384
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 06 Sep 2001
ISBN 10: 0753812762
ISBN 13: 9780753812761
Book Overview: Highly original first novel by a young author who has already been shortlisted for a Hennessy Literary Award A promotable author - a graduate of the creative writing course at the University of East Anglia 'Boyne's ambitious historical fiction traces the adventures of an immortal hero from Robespierre's Reign of Terror to the present day. The range and versatility are impressive' Daily Telegraph 'The charm of Boyne's extraordinary debut is the playful ease with which he carries off the novel's central conceit...The various strands of the story are resolved with a stylish twist and genuine warmth' Sunday Express 'John Boyne achieves a minor masterpiece of organisation and historical sampling - keeping running narratives of Zela's beginning and (probable) end interleaved with encounters with noteworthy events and personalities' Time Out

Author Bio
John Boyne was born in Dublin in 1971 and is currently events manager at Waterstone's Dublin. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and the University of East Anglia, where he completed the course in creative writing. At UEA he was awarded the Curtis Brown prize (shared with Toby Litt). His first short story was published in The Sunday Tribune and was subsequently shortlisted for a Hennessy Literary Award. The Thief of Time is his first novel.