An instance of the fingerpost. by Pears, Iain. (1997) Signed by Author(s) Antiquariat Dieter

An Instance Of The Fingerpost. An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears (1998, Paperback) 9781573220828 eBay "An Instance of the Fingerpost" is told "Rashomon" style, by four different narrators, each of whom has only a partial understanding of events and only one of whom makes telling the truth his primary purpose He is the author of seven highly praised detective novels, a book of art history, and countless articles on artistic, financial, and historical subjects, as well as the international bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost He lives in Oxford, England

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The protagonists are four people giving evidence in a. A missing signet ring leads his colleagues to his former servant (and rumored. A murder in 17th-century Oxford is related from the contradictory points of view of four of the characters, all of them unreliable narrators.

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The Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears Paperback Novel. Iain Pears' intricately plotted, highly intelligent and very enjoyable novel, An Instance of the Fingerpost, explores the troubling and problematic side of the historical movement labelled with the smug term 'The Enlightenment' Nothing in Pears's five archly amusing art mysteries (Giotto's Hand, p