Hawksmoor - Kirjakasa

English language

Published Dec. 30, 1993

ISBN:: 978-0-14-017113-6

(1 review)

Hawksmoor is a 1985 novel by English writer Peter Ackroyd. It won Best Novel at the 1985 Whitbread Awards and the Guardian Fiction Prize. It tells the parallel stories of Nicholas Dyer, who builds seven churches in 18th-century London for which he needs human sacrifices, and Nicholas Hawksmoor, detective in the 1980s, who investigates murders committed in the same churches. Hawksmoor has been praised as Peter Ackroyd's best novel and an example of postmodernism.

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2 stars

Listed in the "book a day" calendar, this is supposedly a "post modern" book. I liked this history and two time lines, and clearly there were some themes between the two, but so many things were left unexplained. Style changes - dialog from a play? An only occasionally omniscient narrator. Is Satanism somehow important? Who is the modern day serial killer - a ghost? There is also the general lack of an ending. Bleh.