Finished reading on: December 24, 2008
The House of Doctor Dee
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The book depicts a parallel narrative set across different historical periods.
The protagonist inherits a house that once belonged to an Elizabethan-era alchemist (the setting is London).
The story of this figure is thus evoked, overlapping with the narrative of the protagonist's gradual discovery of the house (or of himself).
The style is verbose and tedious, devoid of the slightest narrative pace..