Like Edward Cullen in "Twilight", Nigel Mullet was transformed into a vampire when he was still a teenager, and will remain this age forever. Unfortunately, Nigel became a vampire at the awkward age of fifteen, and must spend eternity coping with acne, a breaking voice, and an ineptitude with girls...
Added by: gloriaregis | Karma: 69.17 | Fiction literature | 13 January 2011
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Bruno's Dream (1969)
Bruno, dying, obsessed with spiders and preoccupied with death and reconciliation, lies at the center of an intricate spider's web of relationships and passions: Bruno's estranged and grieving son Miles; Danby, Bruno's widowed son-in-law, consoling himself with the Adelaide the maid, one of Murdoch's finest comic creations; creepy Nigel the nurse and his besotted twin Will, fighter of duels. The flooding Thames brings about the climax, and all are left changed by love and forgiveness before the old man's death.
Webster presents an edited collection of works by British linguist, M. A. K. Halliday, written between the 1970s and 1990s, and based on Halliday's intensive study as a participant-observer of his own son, Nigel, and his developing language skills.
