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The American boy by Taylor, Andrew is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The American boy about?

Interweaving real and fictional elements, The American Boy is a major new literary historical crime novel in the tradition of An Instance of the Fingerpost and Possession . England 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the boy's sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Drawn to Frant's beautiful, unhappy mother, Thomas becomes caught up in her family's twisted intrigues. Then a brutal crime is committed, with consequences that threaten to destroy Thomas and all that he has come to hold dear. Despite his efforts, Shield is caught up in a deadly tangle of sex, money, murder and lies -- a tangle that grips him tighter even as he tries to escape from it. And what of the strange American child, at the heart of these macabre events, yet mysterious -- what is the secret of the boy named Edgar Allen Poe?

Who reads The American boy?

Author

Taylor, Andrew

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780007791514

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Thriller, Thrillers

Rating

3.53 / 5 (1,777 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14