Ebook {Epub PDF} Any Human Face by Charles Lambert

Fortunately, Any Human Face does live up to the promise of Lambert’s earlier work, and despite the cover, there’s no great change in style: it’s thrilling, but many of those thrills come from Charles Lambert’s storytelling ability and eye for character, rather than from plot or genre conventions. The novel isn’t perfect, but for the. Any Human Face. Charles Lambert. Pan Macmillan, - Fiction - pages /5(4). Any Human Face Charles Lambert. The first few chapters seem a bit confusing until you get the characters and the dates clear - but don't let that put you off. As you discover the links between the people and the events you become totally immersed in their world and in the city of Rome itself.

Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. I knew at once that I'd found the novel's epigraph and title. Any is an ambiguous word in a way - it's almost an antagonym in that it conveys a sense of what unites us and what distinguishes us - it's. Charles Lambert His latest novel, The Children's Home, described by Kirkus Reviews as 'a one-of-a-kind literary horror story', is set in neither country. Earlier books include three novels, a collection of prize-winning short stories and a memoir, With a Zero at its Heart, selected by the Guardian as one of its top ten books from Charles Lambert's new novel Any Human Face is being called in the U.K. press a thriller "set on the seamier fringe of Rome's gay scene.". However, if you come to Any Human Face expecting The Bou. [I'm bringing back this review in support of author Charles Lambert's new novel A View from the Tower ] Christopher Moore should write a gay.

Any Human Face by Charles Lambert is set in the bleaker backwaters of Rome, on the edges of the gay community, each chapter like a snapshot in black and white. The Leitmotiv throughout the novel is a collection of photographs of convicts, which passes from one hand to another and eventually ends up in the possession of Andrew Caruso, who runs a delapidated book shop La Piccola Libreria, in the city. Any Human Face. Charles Lambert. Picador, - Antiquarian booksellers - pages. Fortunately, Any Human Face does live up to the promise of Lambert’s earlier work, and despite the cover, there’s no great change in style: it’s thrilling, but many of those thrills come from Charles Lambert’s storytelling ability and eye for character, rather than from plot or genre conventions. The novel isn’t perfect, but for the.