Bellman & Black : a novel
Bellman and Black
Diane Setterfield.
- First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
- New York : Emily Bestler Books/Atria, 2013.
- 328 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Having killed a bird with his slingshot as a boy, William Bellman grows up a wealthy family man unaware of how his act of childhood cruelty will have terrible consequences until a wrenching tragedy compels him to enter into a macabre bargain with a stranger in black.
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Cruelty--Fiction. Funeral rites and ceremonies--Fiction. Partnership--Fiction. Nineteenth century--Fiction.