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| Author | Peter Ackroyd |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Hamish Hamilton (UK) Harper & Row (US) |
Publication date | September 1985 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover & Paperback) |
| ISBN | 978-0-241-11664-7 |
| OCLC | 12500258 |
Hawksmoor is a 1985 novel by English writer Peter Ackroyd. It won Best Novel at the 1985 Whitbread Awards and the Guardian Fiction Prize. It tells the parallel stories of Nicholas Dyer, who builds seven churches in 18th-century London for which he needs human sacrifices, and Nicholas Hawksmoor, detective in the 1980s, who investigates murders committed in the same churches.[1] Hawksmoor has been praised as Peter Ackroyd's best novel and an example of postmodernism.
- ^ The edition used for reference in this article is: Peter Ackroyd: Hawksmoor. With an Introduction by Will Self. Penguin Decades 80s, London 2010 ISBN 978-0141042015