The Ghost at the Table: A Novel - Softcover

Suzanne Berne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565125797 ISBN 13: 9781565125797

Verlag: New Publisher, 2021

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Páginas: 322 Géneros: 12:FA:Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Sinopsis: Strikingly different since childhood and leading dissimilar lives now, sisters Frances and Cynthia have managed to remain ",devoted",—,as long as they stay on opposite coasts. When Frances arranges to host Thanksgiving at her idyllic New England farmhouse, she envisions a happy family reunion, one that will include the sisters' long-estranged father. Cynthia, however, doesn't understand how Frances can ignore the past their father's presence revives, a past that includes suspicions about their mother's death twenty-five years earlier. As Thanksgiving Day arrives, with a houseful of guests looking forward to dinner, the sisters continue to struggle with different versions of a shared past, their conflict escalating to a dramatic, suspenseful climax._,

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"Intellectually and emotionally stimulating...recalling the world of Joyce Carol Oates or of Anne Tyler, if she were ominous....Fresh and intriguing."
--San Francisco Chronicle

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Strikingly different since childhood and leading dissimilar lives now, sisters Frances and Cynthia have managed to remain "devoted"—as long as they stay on opposite coasts. When Frances arranges to host Thanksgiving at her idyllic New England farmhouse, she envisions a happy family reunion, one that will include the sisters' long-estranged father. Cynthia, however, doesn't understand how Frances can ignore the past their father's presence revives, a past that includes suspicions about their mother's death twenty-five years earlier.

As Thanksgiving Day arrives, with a houseful of guests looking forward to dinner, the sisters continue to struggle with different versions of a shared past, their conflict escalating to a dramatic, suspenseful climax.

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• Verlag: New Publisher
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• ISBN 10: 1565125797
• ISBN 13: 9781565125797
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200