"No Night is Too Long"
(Reviewed by Judi Clark FEB 7, 1998)
As the story opens, Tim Cornish has been receiving typed notes on yellow legal paper from an anonymous American. The notes tell pieces of the story from which Daniel Defoe based the novel Robinson Crusoe. At this point all we know is that Tim feels targeted and fearful which is wholly different than guilt. The story continues on in the first person narrative as Tim explains his guilt, his fear and how his relations came to be sexually obsessed with an older man name Ivan and a married woman named Isabel.
Even now as I thumb through the book to write this summary, I am sucked in to reading page after page. Until I realize that I've just reread this book all over again. And yet again, I find it's a true shocker.
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Bibliography: (with links to Amazon.com)
- A Dark Adapted Eye (1986)
- A Fatal Inversion (1987)
- The House of Stairs (1988)
- Gallowglass (1990)
- King Solmon's Carpet (1991)
- Anna's Book (1993)
- No Night is Too Long (1994)
- The Brimstone Wedding (1996)
- The Chimney Sweeper's Boy (1998)
- Grasshopper (October 2000)
- The Blood Doctor (July 2002)
Movies from books:
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Book Marks:
- The Barbara Vine Information page
- The Difference Between Barbara Vine and Ruth Rendell
- Tangled Web's review of The Chimney Sweeper's Boy
- Washington Post review of The Blood Doctor
- The Guardian Unlimited review of The Blood Doctor
- The Guardian Unlimited Observer review of The Blood Doctor
- The Asian Review of Books on The Blood Doctor
- ReviewOfBooks.com collection of reviews for The Blood Doctor
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About the Author:
Barbara Vine is a pseudonym for Ruth Rendell.
A Dark-Adapted Eye won an Edgar Award, the highest honor of the Mystery Writers of America. A Fatal Inversion the English equivalent, the Crime Writers' Gold Dagger Award.
