Rustication
Subtitle: a novel
By: Charles Palliser
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780393088724
Subjects: Young men; Fiction
Description: "It is winter 1863, and Richard Shenstone, aged seventeen, has been sent down--'rusticated'--from Cambridge under a cloud of suspicion. Addicted to opium and tormented by sexual desire, he finds temporary refuge in a dilapidated old mansion on the southern English coast inhabited by his newly impoverished mother and his sister, Effie. Soon, graphic and threatening letters begin to circulate among his neighbors, and Richard finds himself the leading suspect in a series of crimes and misdemeanors ranging from vivisection to murder"--Dust jacket flap.