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A Slight Trick of the Mind

A Slight Trick of the Mind

by Mitch Cullin (Author)

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    Hardcover 2014

    $5.78
Synopsis

Why'd she come here? Why'd she come to you? A cloud passed over the sun, casting a long shadow across the gardens. Hope, I suspect, said Holmes. It seems I am known for discovering answers when events appear desperate. It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He tends to his bees, writes in his journal, and grapples with the diminishing powers of his mind. But in the twilight of his life, as people continue to look to him for answers, Holmes revisits a case that may provide him with answers of his own to questions he didn't even know he was asking-about life, about love, and about the limits of the mind's ability to know.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 253
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 29 May 2014
ISBN 10: 1782113304
ISBN 13: 9781782113300
Book Overview: A devastating literary novel about Sherlock Holmes, soon to be a major film

Media Reviews
Beautiful . . . It's what a novel should be * * Washington Post * *
A wise and touching examination of the human condition * * Los Angeles Times Book Review * *
Cullin is an unusually sophisticated theorist of human nature . . . Beautiful * * New York Times Book Review * *
Wonderfully written and heartbreaking * * San Francisco Chronicle * *
Quite extraordinary . . . Our hero-our eternal hero-has never been more heroic, or more human * * Village Voice * *
This is literary crime fiction at its best * * Good Housekeeping * *
Extremely touching * * Independent * *
Original and surprising * * Sunday Times * *
A meandering, unobtrusively mystical meditation on the oddities of human nature * * Weekly Telegraph * *
A curious, unusual and wonderful novel...this is an essential and truly fascinating read * * Scotsman * *
Author Bio
Mitch Cullin is the author of ten books, including the novel Tideland, the film adaptation of which was directed by Terry Gilliam, and the novel-in-verse, Branches. He lives in California's San Gabriel Valley, and as a teenager was featured in USA Today in 1984 as one of the foremost Holmes fans in the world.