Rooms: A Novel - Brossura

Oliver, Lauren

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ISBN 10: 0062344471 ISBN 13: 9780062344472

Casa editrice: Harper Collins USA, 2015

Riassunto

New York Times bestselling author of BEFORE I FALL and the DELIRIUM trilogy comes Lauren Oliver's brilliant adult debut ROOMS, in which two ghosts inhabit the walls of an old house and steer the lives of one family.

Wealthy, old Richard Walker has just died, leaving behind his vast country house full of rooms packed with junk, mementos, and valuable possessions. But the house is alive and awake, and inhabited by two ghosts: Alice, a prim and slightly repressed exemplar of the 1920s, and Sandra, a high-spirited representative of the 1960s and 1970s, both once living residents at the very same address. Bound eternally to the physical structure of the home, Alice and Sandra, long-dead, jostle for space, memory, and supremacy within the house's claustrophobic walls, observing the Walkers, reminiscing about their lives, and speaking through the sounds of the old house: a hiss of the radiator, a creak in the stairs, a light bulb explodes. And everyone clings to a secret, even the ghosts.

When Richard Walker's ex-wife Caroline, troubled teenage son Trenton, and daughter Minna arrive to read his will, they unwittingly set the stage for an explosive clash. Alice and Sandra have grown irritated with each other over the decades. Alice longs to be free, but how? Perhaps if she destroys the house, burns it down to rubble, she might finally escape? But when a new ghost appears, and Trenton begins to converse with her, the ghost and human worlds collide with cataclysmic results.

In this adult debut, as elegantly constructed as it is brilliantly paced, New York Times bestelling author Lauren Oliver, of the acclaimed novel BEFORE I FALL and the powerful DELIRUM trilogy, delivers a brilliantly imaginative ghost story that is equal parts sweet, sad, and spooky.

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Recensione:

“In Oliver’s moody and mysterious novel, a pair of ghosts inhabits the house of the recently deceased Richard Walker and serves as an invisible chorus to his family’s bleak memories and motivations.” (O magazine)

“A sensational novel that easily glides between the normal and the paranormal. At times humorous, at times heartbreaking, ROOMS is always emotionally resonant and, despite the presence of ghosts, very, very real.” ( Ivy Pochoda author of Visitation Street)

“A chilling ghost story, and much, much more: Rooms is a magnificent gothic fugue on the themes of longing and buried secrets.”-Lev Grossman, bestselling author of The Magicians Trilogy ( Lev Grossman, bestselling author of The Magicians)

“A powerful haunted house story ... Excellently paced... Ultimately, Rooms is an outstanding novel, with a brilliant array of characters...compelling and difficult to put away...it has stuck with me in ways that few books do. Oliver’s particular blend of fantasy is at times funny, other times heartbreaking.” (io9)

“...in this spectral soap opera there’s fun to be had as the plot’s many traps are set and then snapped shut.” (New York Times)

“A spirited new novel.” (W Magazine)

“Best-selling young adult novelist Lauren Oliver, author of Before I Fall and the Delirium trilogy, enters new territory with Rooms, her first novel for adults--though spooky supernatural elements remain.” (Wall Street Journal)

“[A] fantastic ghost story.... Highly recommend.” (Washingtonian, Top 10 Books for September 2014)

“ROOMS is, overall, a very successful work, and an impressive demonstration of Oliver’s craft.” (NPR)

“Lauren Oliver leaves the young-adult realm with her latest novel, in which the living and dead intersect, and family secrets are unearthed when you least expect it.” (San Francisco Chronicle)

L'autore:

Lauren Oliver is the author of the YA novel Before I Fall and the Delirium trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, and Requiem, which have been translated into more than thirty languages and are New York Times and international bestselling novels. She is also the author of two novels for middle-grade readers, The Spindlers and Liesl & Po, which was a 2012 E. B. White Read-Aloud Award nominee. A graduate of the University of Chicago and NYU's MFA program, Lauren Oliver lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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• Editore: Harper Collins USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0062344471
• ISBN 13: 9780062344472
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 224