Ebook {Epub PDF} The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood

 · The Bellwether Revivals. by Benjamin Wood. Publication Date: J. Genres: Literary Fiction, Psychological Suspense, Thriller. Hardcover: .  · Benjamin Wood was born in and grew up in northwest England. He is the author of four novels. His debut The Bellwether Revivals () was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the Commonwealth Book Prize, and won France's Prix du Roman Fnac/5().  · Benjamin Wood’s ambitious, psychologically compelling debut, The Bellwether Revivals, centers around twenty–year–old nursing home assistant Oscar Lowe and the opulent, heady world of brilliant Cambridge students into whose circle he is drawn. It explores the complicated relationships between scientific skepticism and credulous faith, music and healing, genius and madness, class Brand: Penguin Publishing Group.

Part Secret History, part Brideshead Revisited for the 21st century, The Bellwether Revivals is a page-turning, romantic, eerie tale of genius and, possibly, madness; a stunning debut for fans of Sarah Waters, Donna Tartt, and Lauren Goff. The Bellwether Revivals opens and closes with www.doorway.ru story of whose bodies and how they come to be spread about an elegant house on the river near. The Bellwether Revivals Shortlisted for Benjamin Wood constructs his story carefully so that the past reflects meaningfully upon the present in Elspeth's journey as an artist. All the while it has tremendous momentum and drive making it compulsively readable. The plot of Benjamin Wood's first novel, "The Bellwether Revivals," is reminiscent of those horror flicks Jamie Lee Curtis used to star in back when she was known as the "scream queen.

The Bellwether Revivals renders the cruelties and frailties of genius with acuity and tenderness, exploring the naïve sophistication of bright young minds, the moral immunity granted to coteries of privilege and the true nature of mastery in art. Seductive, resonant and disquieting, Benjamin Wood’s novel captures strains and cadences, qualities of music that are rarely rendered except in sound. The Bellwether Revivals is that kind of book, as I somehow knew it would be. Benjamin Wood’s debut is the second of my Fiction Hot Picks for and I couldn’t wait to read it. As mentioned in my previous post Being Selective – How do you choose which books to read?, I love the title, it’s classy and gives the book a distinctive identity. “The Bellwether Revivals renders the cruelties and frailties of genius with acuity and tenderness, exploring the naïve sophistication of bright young minds, the moral immunity granted to coteries of privilege and the true nature of mastery in art. Seductive, resonant and disquieting, Benjamin Wood’s novel captures strains and cadences, qualities of music that are rarely rendered except in sound.”.