Throughout the novel, Starling is dissected as a physical object and a psychological one, offered up as bait and leeringly scrutinized.
Jame Gumb, the serial killer being pursued by the novice FBI agent Clarice Starling, takes this mission literally, stalking and skinning women in a macabre quest to turn them into “material.” The police, the media, and the FBI reduce victims to exploitative clichés or nameless bodies. The substance of the novel is how society ritualistically depersonalizes, objectifies, and consumes women. A masterwork of sheer momentum that rockets seamlessly towards its climax.Harris is quite simply the best suspense novelist working today." - The Washington Post "Beautifully written." - San Francisco Examiner "Fast ." - Chicago Tribune "Superb.If metaphor is art, then consider Thomas Harris an old master: His finest work, 1988’s The Silence of the Lambs, is a Gothic carnival of symbolism and allusion. A masterwork of sheer momentum that rockets seamlessly towards its climax.Harris is quite simply the best suspense novelist working today., "A virtual textbook on the craft of suspense. A masterwork of sheer momentum that rockets seamlessly towards its climax.Harris is quite simply the best suspense novelist working today." -The Washington Post "Beautifully written." -San Francisco Examiner "Fast ." -Chicago Tribune "Superb." -The New York Times, A virtual textbook on the craft of suspense. A masterwork of sheer momentum that rockets seamlessly toward its climax.Harris is quite simply the best suspense novelist working today." -The Washington Post, "A virtual textbook on the craft of suspense. "A virtual textbook on the craft of suspense. His cryptic clues-about Buffalo Bill and about her -launch Clarice on a search that every reader will find startling, harrowing, and totally compelling.
Smart and attractive, Starling is shaken to find herself in a strange, intense relationship with the acutely perceptive Lecter. Lecter's insight into the minds of murderers could help track and capture Buffalo Bill. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and grisly killer now kept under close watch in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Academy, is surprised to be summoned by Jack Crawford, Chief of the Bureau's Behavioral Science section. Clarice Starling, a young trainee at the F.B.I. He has a purpose, but no one can fathom it, for the bodies are discovered in different states. A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname-Buffalo Bill-is stalking particular women.
An ingenious, masterfully written novel, Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs is a classic of suspense and storytelling and the basis for the Oscar award-winning horror film starring Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins as Dr.
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