Marley by Jon Clinch7/7/2023 But in Jon Clinch's ingenious novel, Jacob Marley, business partner to Ebenezer Scrooge, is very much alive: a rapacious and cunning boy who grows up to be a forger, a scoundrel, and the man who will be both the making and the undoing of Scrooge. "Marley was dead, to begin with," Charles Dickens tells us at the beginning of A Christmas Carol. Masterly." - The New York Times Book Review From the acclaimed author of Finn comes a masterful reimagining of Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol with this darkly entertaining exploration of the relationship between Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley. About the Book From the acclaimed author of Finn comes a masterful re-imagining of Charles Dickens's classic, A Christmas Carol, in this darkly entertaining and moving exploration of the twisted relationship between Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley.īook Synopsis "By some uncanny act of artistic appropriation, has, without imitating Dickens, entered into the phantasmagoric realm that is the great novelist's quintessential territory.Startling and creative.Remarkable.
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