An edition of The Silence of the Lambs (1988)

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An edition of The Silence of the Lambs (1988)

The Silence of the Lambs

  • 4.2 (35 ratings) ·
  • 463 Want to read
  • 27 Currently reading
  • 60 Have read

With his last book, Red Dragon, Thomas Harris took the popular novel into new dimensions of suspense and terror. 'The book simply comes at you and comes at you,' wrote Stephen King, finally leaving you shaken and sober and afraid on a deeper level than simple "thrills" alone furnish.'

In The Silence of the Lambs Harris has surpassed even that extraordinary achievement and created a novel that will be talked about for years to come.

A killer is attacking women across the United States. His methods are horrifying, his motives unknown; he has a purpose, but no one can fathom it. No one except Dr Hannibal Lecter, brilliant psychiatrist and homicidal genius, now confined in strict isolation in a hospital for the criminally insane.

Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee, is assigned to interview Lecter, to match her wits against his in a race against time to save another young woman from the grotesque fate that has befallen the previous victims. In the process she is drawn along a path of sheer terror, a descent ever deeper into her own memories and nightmares, towards a discovery of incomparable horror.

A masterpiece of suspense and a terrifying study of pure evil, The Silence of the Lambs is a living nightmare - but you wont want it to end.
--front flap

Publish Date
Publisher
BCA
Language
English
Pages
295

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1999, Heyne
paperback in German - 42. Auflage
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The Silence of the Lambs
1999?, St. Martin's Paperbacks
Mass Market Paperback in English
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Le silence des agneaux: Roman
1996-01, Éd. de la Seine
Paperback in French
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De schreeuw van het lam
1995, Poema Pocket
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1993, R.B.A
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The Silence of the Lambs
1991, BCA
Hardcover in English
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The Silence of the Lambs
1988, St. Martin's Press
Hardcover in English - BOMC edition

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Edition Notes

Published in
London
Copyright Date
1988

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
294p.
Number of pages
295

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL33891575M
OCLC/WorldCat
57705885
Goodreads
59079149

Work Description

The Silence of the Lambs is a psychological horror novel by Thomas Harris. First published in 1988, it is the sequel to Harris's 1981 novel Red Dragon. Both novels feature the cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter, this time pitted against FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling.

The novel won the 1988 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel.
The novel also won the 1989 Anthony Award for Best Novel.

It was nominated for the 1989 World Fantasy Award.

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Behavioral Science, the FBI section that deals with serial murder, is on the bottom floor of the Academy building at Quantico, half-buried in the earth.
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