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쿠쿠스 콜링. 1
2013
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4.14
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조앤 K. 롤링의 저력을 다시 한 번 확인할 수 있는 탐정 스릴러! 의문의 죽음을 맞은 슈퍼모델과 진실을 밝혀내려는 남자의 이야기를 담은 소설 『쿠쿠스 콜링』 제1권. 《해리포터》의 저자 조앤 K. 롤링이 로버트 갤브레이스라는 가명으로 펴낸 첫 소설로 그간의 성공을 등에 업지 않고 작품만으로 전 세계 언론으로부터 극찬을 받았다. 신인의 데뷔작이라고 하기에 완숙하고 세련된 완성도를 보여주었던 작품이기에 언젠가 유명 작가가 필명으로 출판한 작품으로 밝혀질지도 모른다는 의견이 있기도 했다. 영국에서 가장 잘나가는 톱모델인 룰라 랜드리가 자신의 집 발코니에서 떨어져 사망하고 경찰 수사는 자살로 종결된다. 사설 탐정 코모란 스트라이크를 찾은 그녀의 오빠는 여동생의 죽음에 대해 추가 조사를 해달라고 부탁한다. 파산 직전의 위기의 그는 울며 겨자 먹기로 의뢰를 수락하고 비서 로빈과 경찰이 간과한 증거와 증인들을 하나둘씩 파헤치며 사건을 조사해간다. 젊은 모델이 살아가던 화려한 세계를 파고들수록 고독, 욕망, 얽히고설킨 비밀들로 얼룩진 어두운 진실이 고개를 들고 끔찍한 위험이 점점 가까워오는데…….
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Robert Galbraith
Author · 13 books

This is a pseudonym for J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series and The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adults. NOTE: There is more than one author with this name on Goodreads. Rowling was born to Anne Rowling (née Volant) and Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. They married on 14 March 1965. Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran. Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during the First World War. Rowling's sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. The family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling was four. She attended St Michael's Primary School, a school founded by abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah More. Her headmaster at St Michael's, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore. As a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories, which she would usually then read to her sister. She recalls that: "I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it. Certainly the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee." At the age of nine, Rowling moved to Church Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. When she was a young teenager, her great aunt, who Rowling said "taught classics and approved of a thirst for knowledge, even of a questionable kind," gave her a very old copy of Jessica Mitford's autobiography, Hons and Rebels. Mitford became Rowling's heroine, and Rowling subsequently read all of her books. Rowling has said of her teenage years, in an interview with The New Yorker, "I wasn’t particularly happy. I think it’s a dreadful time of life." She had a difficult homelife; her mother was ill and she had a difficult relationship with her father (she is no longer on speaking terms with him). She attended secondary school at Wyedean School and College, where her mother had worked as a technician in the science department. Rowling said of her adolescence, "Hermione [a bookish, know-it-all Harry Potter character] is loosely based on me. She's a caricature of me when I was eleven, which I'm not particularly proud of." Steve Eddy, who taught Rowling English when she first arrived, remembers her as "not exceptional" but "one of a group of girls who were bright, and quite good at English." Sean Harris, her best friend in the Upper Sixth owned a turquoise Ford Anglia, which she says inspired the one in her books.

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