Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Cullin, Mitch |
| Publisher: | Anchor |
| Date: | 5/9/2006 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
The basis for the Major Motion Picture Mr. Holmes starring Ian McKellen and Laura Linney and directed by Bill Condon.
It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote Sussexfarmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He tends to his bees, writes inhis journal, and grapples with the diminishing powers of his mind. But in the twilightof his life, as people continue to look to him for answers, Holmes revisits a casethat may provide him with answers of his own to questions he didn’t even know hewas asking–about life, about love, and about the limits of the mind’s ability toknow. A novel of exceptional grace and literary sensitivity, A Slight Trick of theMind is a brilliant imagining of our greatest fictional detective and a stunninginquiry into the mysteries of human connection.
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