Lost - Softcover

Maguire, Gregory

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060988649 ISBN 13: 9780060988647

Verlag: HarperCollins, 2002

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Book by Maguire Gregory

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Reseña del editor:

Famed children's author Winifred Rudge attempts to write a novel about a woman haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper and finds herself the object of spectral phenomena as she arrives in London to find her stepcousin John Comestor missing under mysterious circumstances. Reprint.

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Winifred Rudge, a bemused writer struggling to get beyond the runaway success of her mass-market astrology book, travels to London to jump-start her new novel about a woman who is being haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper. Upon her arrival, she finds that her stepcousin and old friend John Comestor has disappeared, and a ghostly presence seems to have taken over his home. Is the spirit Winnie's great-great-grandfather, who, family legend claims, was Charles Dickens's childhood inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge? Could it be the ghostly remains of Jack the Ripper? Or a phantasm derived from a more arcane and insidious origin? Winnie begins to investigate and finds herself the unwilling audience for a drama of specters and shades—some from her family's peculiar history and some from her own unvanquished past.

In the spirit of A. S. Byatt's Possession, with dark echoing overtones of A Christmas Carol, Lost presents a rich fictional world that will enrapture its readers.

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• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0060988649
• ISBN 13: 9780060988647
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352