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Candlemoth
by: Roger Jon Ellory

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
EAN: 9780752859149
ISBN: 0752859145
Label: Orion Books Ltd
Manufacturer: Orion Books Ltd
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 391
Publication Date: August 02, 2004
Publisher: Orion Books Ltd
Studio: Orion Books Ltd
Sales Rank: 49669

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Amazon.co.uk Review:
Roger John Ellory's Candlemoth makes a decent but not entirely successful stab at being several novels. It is a protest against the death penalty and about inhuman treatment of prisoners that dramatises both issues by showing us Daniel, who has been railroaded to the electric chair over the brutal murder of his best friend. Inevitably though, Daniel is so passive and battered by his situation that the book can show us little except his pain. Offstage, it is a thriller about the process whereby he was framed and might be acquitted, but Ellory de-emphasises this aspect of the plot in favour of Daniel's suffering.

Much of the book is taken up in a memoir of the 60s, when Daniel and his best friend Nathan had a relationship that crossed racial boundaries in a south torn by conflict and when they went on the run to avoid being drafted into an unjust war. The book is vivid in its sense of the time, but again there is a sense of Daniel as someone who never really lives his own life--even in love and friendship he is the person to whom emotions and events happen. --Roz Kaveney

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Ellory fan.
If you have been hooked by Ellory, this in my opinion, is his best.
I thought it was very well written and the main character's story absorbing.

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- Oooh...this guy's good...
Just finished this and I can't believe this guy's work isn't more widely known. R J Ellory is a quality act. It's great to see "A Quiet Belief in Angels" in the bestsellers and anyone who enjoyed that isn't going to be disappointed with his back catalogue either. "Candle Moth" was his first published novel (there are apparently 22 unpublished sitting around) and I can't for the life of me see how it took so long for him to make the big time.
The prose here isn't as refined as his new novels and at times the historical exposition is a little obvious, but this is a great read. The only reason I dock it a star is that he's subsequently proven he can write even better.

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- Dead Man Talking
Roger Jon Ellory made his big breakthrough in 2007 with A Quiet Belief in Angels which has gone on to become one of the best-selling books in the nation. There's a lot more to this Brummie lad than just that one novel though, and most people going through his back-catalogue as a response to his blockbuster success are finding that his outstanding writing skills are evident here in his debut, which again spans most of the lifetime of a single man in the south-eastern USA through the 1950s, 1960s and beyond. It is altogether different in its style, however, and in the emotions it engenders in its readers.

Most stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end. This one is a curiosity because in effect the reader knows the end before ... Read More:

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- Enthralling from start to finish!
'Four times I've been betrayed - twice by women, once by a better friend than any man might wish for, and lastly by a nation..'

36 year old Daniel Ford, a convicted murderer is on death row for the murder of his best friend Nathan. With thirty six days before he faces the electric chair, piece by piece he relates his lifestory to the Prison Chaplin Father Rousseau. His story starts in rural North Carolina when in 1952, at six years old he meets Nathan. The two boys (one born white the other black) become best friends, their friendship lasting until Nathan's brutal murder 20 years later.

I really loved this. It was enthralling, with well drawn characters and covered the history of the period, the racism, political ... Read More:

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- Great drama set against the backdrop of a changing America
This is one of those novels where you feel everything the main character feels, as he looks back on a once-idyllic existence that somehow went horribly wrong. Highly recommended, as is A Quiet Belief in Angels, another of RJ's works.

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