Poison, Shadow, and Farewell

Poison, Shadow, and Farewell, with its heightened tensions between meditations and noir narrative, with its wit and and ever deeper forays into the mysteries of consciousness, brings to a stunning finale Marías's three-part Your Face Tomorrow. Already this novel has been acclaimed "exquisite" (Publishers Weekly), "gorgeous" (Kirkus), and "outstanding: another work of urgent originality" (London Independent). Poison, Shadow, and Farewell takes our hero Jaime Deza--hired by MI6 as a person of extraordinarily sophisticated powers of perception--back to Madrid to both spy on and try to protect his own family, and into new depths of love and loss, with a fluency on the subject of death that could make a stone weep.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 06/08/2011
ISBN: 9780811219242
Pages: 554
Weight: 1.39lbs
Size: 7.97h x 5.24w x 1.58d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 06/26/2011 pg. 36