The Ghost Writer - Softcover

Harwood, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156032325 ISBN 13: 9780156032322

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin, 2005

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Book by Harwood John

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"By the last page, all loose ends have been tied up, but the uncanny still clings to everything."
--Laura Miller "Salon.com "

"A fabulous, very spooky ghost story in the classic mode that will remind some people of A.S. Byatt's "Possession."

--Laura Miller "Talk of the Nation "

PRAISE FOR THE GHOST WRITER
"[Harwood's] novel is an homage, a Victorian ghost story that honors the likes of Dickens and Henry James . . . A smart, stylish and mesmerizing book."-THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD

"Does [Alice] have some connection to Gerard's creepy, semi-insane mom? And to those Victorian horror tales that Gerard keeps stumbling across? What's she hiding, anyway? The answers are yes, yes, and wait and see . . . It's like A. S. Byatt's Possession. But without all that distracting poetry."-TIME
"''The Ghost Writer," is a first-class creeper, a literary ghost story in the Victorian tradition."
--Boston Globe

"Intricate and engrossing. Harwood raises the ghost of the Victorian ghost story. One ghoulishly absorbing read. B+."

--Entertainment Weekly

"The Ghost Writer" is a grand Victorian tale in which Gerard becomes increasingly certain something wicked his way comes.
-- (07/04/2004)

"Sly nods to spooky literary spinsters - James' Miss Jessel, Dickens's Miss Havisham - set the tone for this confident debut."
--PW

"You can't help being dazzled by Harwood's inventiveness, especially his sure-footed mastery of prose style. [An] entertainingly accomplished first novel."
--San Jose Mercury News

"An elegant homage to the Victorian ghost story tradition. Like Dickens's The Pickwick Papers, Harwood makes your flesh creep."
--The Times of London

"Harwood has written a smart, stylish and mesmerizing book."
--Washington Post Book World

Reseña del editor:

A tantalizing tale of suspense and family secrets that weaves Victorian ghost stories into the present—where they start to come true

Timid, solitary librarian Gerard Freeman lives for just two things: his elusive pen pal Alice and a story he found hidden in his mother’s drawer years ago. Written by his great-grandmother Viola, it hints at his mother's role in a sinister crime. And as he discovers more of Viola’s chilling tales, he realizes that they might hold the key to finding Alice and unveiling his family's mystery—or will they bring him the untimely death they seem to foretell?

Harwood’s astonishing, assured debut shows us just how dangerous family skeletons—and stories—can be.
 

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• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0156032325
• ISBN 13: 9780156032322
• Einband: Paperback
• Anzahl der Seiten: 380