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005			20240726105307.0
008			121022s2012 tnu ob s000 1 eng d
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020			_a9781572339286 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
043			_ae-uk-en
050	0	4	_aPS3505 _b.L663 2012
050	0	4	_aPS3563
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aMadden, David, _d1933- _e1
245	1	0	_aLondon Bridge in plague and fire : _ba novel / _cDavid Madden.
250			_afirst edition.
260			_aKnoxville : _bUniversity of Tennessee Press, _c(c)2012.
300			_a1 online resource
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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520	0		_a"I am still living on London Bridge myself. The world of this novel has merged with my life. Under Madden's pen, the web of human connection is woven over water, through space, and beyond time."--Allen Wier, author of Tehano For more than two thousand years, Old London Bridge evolved through many fragile wooden forms until it became the first bridge built of stone since the Roman invaders. With over two hundred houses and shops built directly upon the bridge, it was a wonder of the world until it was dismantled in 1832. In this stunningly original novel, Old London Bridge is as much a living, breathing character as its architect, the priest Peter de Colechurch, who began work on it in 1176, partly to honor Archbishop Thomas à Becket, murdered in Canterbury Cathedral. In 1665, the year of the Great Plague, Peter's history is unknown, but Daryl Braintree, a young poet living on the bridge, resurrects him through inspired flights of imagination. As Daryl chronicles the history of the bridge and composes poems about it, he reads his work to his witty mistress, who prefers making love. Among other key characters is Lucien Redd, who as a boy was sexually brutalized by both Puritans and Cavaliers during the English Civil War before being kidnapped off London Bridge onto a merchant ship. Thus traumatized, he aspires to become Lucifer's most evil disciple. Twenty years later, young Morgan Wood is forced into seafaring service to pay off his father's debts; and, compelled by obsessive nostalgia for his early life on the bridge, he keeps a journal. Joining Morgan aboard ship, Lucien befriends him to devastating effect. The shops and houses on the bridge survive both the Great Plague and Great Fire, believed to be God's wrath upon sinful London. Fearing that God may next destroy the bridge and its eight hundred denizens, seven of its merchant leaders revert to a pagan appeasement ritual by selecting one of their virgin daughters for sacrifice. To enact their plan, they hire Lucien, who has returned to the bridge to burn it out of pure meanness. But as Lucien discovers, the chosen victim may be more Lucifer's favorite than he is. Like his creation Daryl Braintree, David Madden employs diverse innovative ways to tell this complex, often shocking, but also lyrical story. The author of ten novels --
505	0	0	_a1. Lucien Redd, a Child of Civil War; 2. Daryl Braintree, Poet-Chronicler of London Bridge; 3. Shopkeepers on the Bridge Meet to Report Its Condition; 4. Morgan Wood, a Child of the Bridge, at Sea; 5. The Brotherhood of the Bridge Meets to Repair the Bridge; 6. Father Peter de Colechurch Steals the Murdered Body of Archbishop Thomas à Becket; 7. Lucien Comes onto Morgan's Ship; 8. Voices in the Great Plague of London; 9. Plague Aftermath: The Brotherhood of the Bridge; 10. Lucien Torments Morgan at Sea; 11. The Poet Builds London Bridge of Stone.
505	0	0	_a12. Voices in the Great Fire of London13. The Brotherhood of the Bridge: Cabalistic Meetings; 14. The Brotherhood Hires Lucien as Kidnapper; 15. Lucien Kidnaps Blythe, Dark Lady of the Bridge; 16. Morgan Wood, a Child of the Bridge, Returns; 17. Morgan and Lucien on the Bridge; 18. Lucien Kidnaps Gilda, Fair Lady of the Bridge; 19. The Search for Gilda; 20. Light Is God's Shadow.
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655		1	_aElectronic Books.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell