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Mistaken Kindle Edition

by Neil Jordan (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
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Menace both real and imagined haunt two Dubliners in this “unsettling . . . seductive” modern Gothic “that ultimately leaves one gasping” (Irish Times).

“Vampires, secrets, the mysteries of identity: the obsessions that run through the director Neil Jordan’s films are at the center of his beautifully enigmatic novel . . . of two look-alike men who feed off each other’s souls all their crisscrossed lives” (The New York Times).

Kevin Thunder and Gerald Spain have grown up on opposite sides of the Dublin economic divide. Kevin’s father is a bookie and his mother takes in lodgers on the city’s impoverished northside. Gerald, a lawyer’s son, is afforded a more well-heeled upbringing. Yet they share a growing awareness of each other through episodes of mistaken identity. At first, innocent enough—one approached by the other’s confused girlfriend, or being called out to in the street. But Kevin is unnerved by more than a doppelganger. He lives next door to the one-time home of Bram Stoker. And the shadows of the author’s evil creation, as well as those cast by a lookalike stranger, stretch far across his early years. It’s only when a tragic death sends both young men down a darker path, that Kevin and Gerald are destined to meet.

A “beautifully enigmatic . . . darkly luminous” (The New York Times Book Review) thriller, Mistaken is also “the best novel I’ve read about Dublin in years” (The Independent).
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Praise for Mistaken

"Beautifully enigmatic . . . Mistaken shines with a darkly luminous glow." —The New York Times Book Review

"Meticulous, well-crafted . . . As one might expect from a seasoned filmmaker, the novel is well plotted and mysteries are revealed at a tantalizing pace . . . The language is precise and evocative, with Dublin itself lovingly rendered in all its gray complexity." —Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Neil Jordan is the author of several critically-acclaimed novels including Mistaken, The Dream of a Beast, Sunrise with Sea Monster, Shade, and Night in Tunisia, a collection of short stories which won the Guardian Fiction Prize. He has written, directed and produced a large number of Academy Award-winning films including The Crying Game, Michael Collins, Interview with a Vampire, The End of the Affair, and Ondine. He is currently the Creator and Executive Producer of the Emmy-nominated Showtime series The Borgias. He lives in Dublin.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B006GCKHPE
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Soft Skull (January 1, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 1, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 794 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

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A S Linton
5.0 out of 5 stars Judging by covers
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2012
Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Shade) sets this suspenseful story about identity in Dublin during the sixties and seventies. Narrated by Kevin, the northside kid who keeps being mistaken for a middle-class private-school boy "a ponce, a thief," until he deliberately decides to take on the role of Gerry -- to mixed results. Haunting and beautifully written, the novel deserves wider readership than its quiet cover might lead one to expect.
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Christine P.
4.0 out of 5 stars Literary fiction doppleganger tale.
Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2019
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Jordan's a pretty good novelist (I own others of his books), but his day job of screenwriting influences this one heavily: there are long passages of dialogue without attribution tags (it can be difficult to tell the players without a scorecard), and the short chapters mimic motion picture scenes. Frequently shifting back and forth between the past and the present can make the delivery uneven. The chapter titles designating places in Ireland will be meaningless to anybody who isn't familiar with the place, but those who are shouldn't expect exact location fidelity: this is, after all, fiction.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Engaging Literary Fiction
Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2012
I loved this novel - an engaging and compelling story of two boys who grow up together in Dublin. The writing really draws you into another world. I only knew of the author's film work, and now I want to go check out his other novels!
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