The Uninvited Guests (P.S.) - Softcover

Jones, Sadie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062116517 ISBN 13: 9780062116512

Verlag: PERENNIAL, 2013

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Book by Jones Sadie

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"What a delicious read! Like something written by a wicked Jane Austen, ...I was captivated by its madcap nature and then, unprepared for the strange fruit that the story became."--Sarah Blake, New York Times Bestselling Author of THE POSTMISTRESS

"Vividly atmospheric...niftily deceptive...a story of shattered snobbery, transformation of character and in the end a surprising and eerily beautiful portrait of compassion...A sublimely clever book."--Mary Pols, San Francisco Chronicle

"Entertaining...Jones is a writer of admirable narrative energy...with a painfully accurate, almost Stoppardian ear for dialogue and a delightful streak of cruelty that flirts with...the gothic."--Lev Grossman, Time Magazine

"Delicious...comparisons with Downton Abbey will be both inevitable and fair."--Wall Street Journal

"A delightful, eerie novel...Jones expertly balances the whimsical and the strange, building things to a climax of abandon, terror and restitution...Engrossing, enjoyable."--Philip Womack, Telegraph

"Jones' clever prose and bright tone heighten her characters and setting...she adroitly draws the layers of character that are exposed as shameful secrets come to light."--Atlantic Monthly

"A comedy of manners that turns downright surreal...Jones's effervescent writing keeps the course steady-even as her characters shed their civilized veneers."--Ellen Shapiro, People Four Star Review

"Exhilaratingly strange and darkly funny...veers off in a wildly surprising direction, and the way it plays out is delightful, sexy, moving-even profound...Will haunt you-but happily."--USA Today

"'Downton Abbey' takes a turn for the supernatural in Sadie Jones's stylishly eccentric comedy of manners THE UNINVITED GUESTS...Anglophiles who admire a biting sense of humor and a tinge of the Gothic, pull up a chair."--Christian Science Monitor

"Ms. Jones's comedy of manners, which takes place over a single evening in 1912, gleefully exposes the family members' snobbery... The author can't resist harassing the Torringtons with the menace in the next room..."--New York Times

Reseña del editor:

While fighting to save their family home, Charlotte prepares for an elaborate birthday celebration for her daughter Emerald, an event that unexpectedly turns into a dramatic evening that forever changes all of their lives.

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• Verlag: PERENNIAL
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0062116517
• ISBN 13: 9780062116512
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 262