He was laughing, chin up, and shaking his head.
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Told in a stream-of-consciousness narrative, this is a story of obsession. Against the advice of his builder, the Dean of Salisbury Cathedral, slowly dying from tuberculosis, plans the construction of a towering spire atop the cathedral as the culmination of his life’s work but becomes increasingly deranged as the construction faces constant problems due to the sheer grandiosity of the work.
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Fiction, Design and construction, Cathedrals, Middle Ages, Fiction in English, Fiction, historical, Fiction, general, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, religious, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, psychological, English literaturePlaces
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The spire: a novel
1971, Faber and Faber Ltd
in English
- Educational ed / with an introduction and notes by David B. Gray.
0571093299 9780571093298
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