Mr. Timothy
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.67 (616 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0792731069 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 115 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Bayard's appreciation for the lurid exoticness of Victorian London rivals that of John MacLachlan Gray (The Fiend in Human), while his lyrical prose subtly suggests 19th-century influences. Only now he's a "mostly able-bodied" 23 years old, resides in a London whorehouse in exchange for tutoring the madam, struggles to wean himself from financial dependence on his ancient "Uncle" Ebenezer Scrooge, and, as we learn in Louis Bayard's darkly enchanting historical thriller, Mr. Tiny Tim is back! No, not the squeaky-voiced troubadour who tip-toed through tulips in the 1960s, but the original--Timothy Cratchit, the crutch-wielding tyke from Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Authors employing real-life characters as detectives are often hampered by their adherence to historical fact. Bayard suffers no such limitations in imagining what fates awaited Dickens's now-famous fictional figures. No humbug there. --J. Timothy, is haunted by the spiri
Timothy Cratchit, not the pious child the world thought he was, has just buried his father. The sight of their horror-struck faces compels Timothy to become the protector of another young girl, Philomela, from the fate the others suffered at the hands of a dangerous and powerful man.A different kind of Christmas story, this breathless flight through the teeming markets, shadowy passageways, and rolling brown fog of 1860s London would do Dickens proud for its surprising twists and turns, and its extraordinary heart.. It's the Christmas season, and Mr. He's also struggling to bury his past as a cripple and shed his financial ties to his benevolent "Uncle" Ebenezer by losing himself in the thick of London's underbelly. He boards at a brothel in exchange for teaching the mistress how to read and spends his nights dredging the Thames for dead bodies and the treasures in their pocket
One Dickens of a Tale! As readers or, like myself, avowed non-readers of the various novels that purport to be sequels to the great novels (think "Scarlett") can attest, it is usually a fool's errand to attempt such a thing. But, once in a great while, o.k., probably never before, someone pulls off the trick. That someone is Louis Bayard. Mr. Timothy is, as we reali. Timothy Haugh said Not A Christmas Carol .but Excellent. It is a risky and difficult task to take on a famous piece of literature. Everyone who falls in love with a book likes to imagine how the story continues after the author decides to leave it. A writer who challenges a reader's imagination does so at his own risk. Failures are legion. But that is just what Louis Bayard has decided to do with Mr. stop, thief. Jimok580 Just kiddingi don't think louis bayard is a thief for taking the characters from 'a christmas carol' and creating a sequel. Afterall, scrooge is a minor character here and tiny tim's 'not so tiny any more, that's a fact.' Bayard expands from the point of what became of timothy cratchit after scrooge's conversion. He was as good as his word and