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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... happened ? You aim at the sky -- and the bullet goes through your brain . " Olivia did not speak . " After your father died we all knew why . We could all say - yes , the War did that . He went away to war . It broke his spirit . And ...
... happened ? You aim at the sky -- and the bullet goes through your brain . " Olivia did not speak . " After your father died we all knew why . We could all say - yes , the War did that . He went away to war . It broke his spirit . And ...
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... happened at a time when Fabiana herself was attempting to recover from another enterprise that had failed her marriage to James Holbach . Holbach - as had been said at the time - went off into the Amazon region - where he disappeared ...
... happened at a time when Fabiana herself was attempting to recover from another enterprise that had failed her marriage to James Holbach . Holbach - as had been said at the time - went off into the Amazon region - where he disappeared ...
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... happened ? " Marlow asked . " To your cousin . " " He courted death . He wanted it . Death , he said , with bells on . " She waved her hand . " I see . " " You may say you see , Doctor Marlow - but you don't . ” Marlow made a ...
... happened ? " Marlow asked . " To your cousin . " " He courted death . He wanted it . Death , he said , with bells on . " She waved her hand . " I see . " " You may say you see , Doctor Marlow - but you don't . ” Marlow made a ...
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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