The Silence of the Lambs

Mass Market Paperback, 367 pages

English language

Published Oct. 14, 1989 by St. Martin's Paperbacks.

ISBN:
978-0-312-92458-4
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OCLC Number:
982016316

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To Catch A Killer... FBI trainee Clarice Starling is in search of a serial killer who bonds with his victims in unspeakable ways. There is only one way to find him. By unlocking the secrets of another man who once also killed mercilessly...

She'll Have To Enter The Mind... Dr. Hannibal Lecter, confined to a state hospital for the criminally insane, is charming, brilliant, and seductive. He's willing to give Clarice what she needs. If Clarice gives him what he wants...

Of Another Twisted Predator... In the unfathomable corners of a madman's mind the truth is waiting. And only in that darkness will Clarice discover how much innocence she's yet to shed.

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The old definition of moth was ‘anything that gradually, silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.’ It was a verb for destruction too…

If I may be vain for a moment, I am perhaps in the minority among readers of this novel, namely those who have not seen the film adaptation. I was vaguely familiar with it from pop culture, but I never knew all the details, aside from small details here or there about Hannibal Lecter. I had been seeing his name come up a lot lately and decided, why not, the penultimate day or so before my thesis is due is a perfect time to start a book! (Note: heavy sarcasm.) This is a novel that grips you as soon as you start, which made it hurt to simultaneously read and finish my thesis… so it was a bit slowgoing, at first. Despite that, it did not …

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