Disquiet Heart
| Year of Publication |
2002
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
322 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Publisher |
Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Minotaur
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| City |
New York
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| Abstract |
In 1847 Edgar Allan Poe, whose child-wife had just died, drifts off both melancholic and soused for a lucrative lecture tour in Pittsburgh. With his protégé Augie Dubbins, the book’s 17-year-old narrator, Poe travels by train and canal boat to reach the mansion of his wealthy Pittsburgh host, Dr. Alfred Brunrichter, who is an admirer of Poe’s writing. At the same time, six young women have disappeared from the streets of Pittsburgh. Dubbins and Poe set out to investigate the murders.
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| Notes |
In 2004, Disquiet Heart was republished as a mass market paperback under the new title of Doubly Dead.
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| Author Biography |
Randall Silvis (1950— ), born in Madison Twp., Clarion County and educated at Clarion University of Pennsylvania and Indiana University of Pennsylvania, is a novelist and playwright. He won the 1984 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for Short Fiction.
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| Time |
1847
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