HeadhunterHarperCollins, 27 sept. 1999 - 528 pages It all starts when Lilah Kemp - librarian, spiritualist, schizophrenic - inadvertantly lets Kurtz out of page 92 of Heart of Darkness and is unable to get him back in. While Kurtz is stalking the streets of Toronto, Lilah frantically begins her search for Marlow to help her deal with the literary villain Meanwhile, the city is becoming increasingly chaotic and terrifying. The rich and powerful are engaged in a web of depravity, a new and horrifying disease called sturnusemia has swept the city, and severly traumatized children are turning up at the local psychiatric institutes. Kurtz seems to be at the centre of it all. Lilah, witness to events tearing the very fabric of her society, seeks solace as always in the great works of literature and prays for Marlow to find an capture Kurtz - before it's too late. |
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... Doctor Purvis out of sight at just that moment , leaving Doctor Shelley alone with her students , her pills and her bloodied clipboard . Today , there was a Scotch mist - and the birds had begun or were about to return to the city ...
... Doctor Purvis out of sight at just that moment , leaving Doctor Shelley alone with her students , her pills and her bloodied clipboard . Today , there was a Scotch mist - and the birds had begun or were about to return to the city ...
Page 153
... Doctor Purvis . But still ... a woman in tears a trembling woman — a woman who requested assistance in find- ing the washroom ... No. It could not be so . Men , also , had been shifting away from Doctor Purvis to Kurtz : Warren Ellis ...
... Doctor Purvis . But still ... a woman in tears a trembling woman — a woman who requested assistance in find- ing the washroom ... No. It could not be so . Men , also , had been shifting away from Doctor Purvis to Kurtz : Warren Ellis ...
Page 317
... Doctor Purvis ? " " Is anyone there , Mrs O. ? " The doctor's voice was hoarse , as if he had been making a speech - which , of course , in a way , he had . " No , Doctor Purvis . Are you expecting someone ? There's no one on my ...
... Doctor Purvis ? " " Is anyone there , Mrs O. ? " The doctor's voice was hoarse , as if he had been making a speech - which , of course , in a way , he had . " No , Doctor Purvis . Are you expecting someone ? There's no one on my ...
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Amy's Arlene Phillips Arnie asked Austin Purvis Barbara Beaumorris began Bella Ben Webster birds called cats chair Charlie cigarette D-Squads dark dead Doctor Kurtz Doctor Marlow Doctor Purvis door Eleanor Eleanor Farjeon Eloise Emma eyes Fabiana face Fagan father fingers floor Freda Gatz girl glass gone Gordon Perry Grendel Griffin hair hand happened heard Heart of Darkness Heathcliff Jean-Paul Sartre John Dai Julian Slade kill kitchen knew light Lilah Kemp looked Marlow thought Maynard Modecate mother moved never Olivia once Oona Orenstein Orley paintings Parkin Institute patient Peggy Robert Robert Ireland Rosedale Rupert seemed seen Shapiro shoes silence sister sitting Slade smiled someone stared stood sturnusemia Susanna Susanna Moodie tell thing told took turned voice walked wanted Warren Warren Ellis watched window woman wondered words wore Wylie