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Violence
A lot
Murders that closely follow Dante's infernal punishments; imaginatively gruesome
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking in period Boston
Emotional Intensity
Some
Death, justice, and the intersection of literature and violence
What this book is about
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and J.T. Fields are translating Dante's Divine Comedy when a series of murders appears to follow the punishments of Hell. Pearl's atmospheric debut blends literary history with gruesome crime fiction, set in a Boston still processing the Civil War. The murders are inventive and disturbing.
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Graphically inventive murders
Dante's Inferno content
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