The Ghost Writer - Brossura

Harwood, John

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099460823 ISBN 13: 9780099460824

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2005

Riassunto

Viola Hatherley was a writer of ghost stories in the 1890s whose work lies forgotten until her great-grandson, as a young boy in Mawson, Australia, learns how to open the secret drawer in his mother's room. There he finds a manuscript, and from the moment his mother catches him in the act, Gerard Freeman's life is irrevocably changed. What is the invisible, ever-present threat from which his mother strives so obsessively to protect him? And why should stories written a century ago entwine themselves ever more closely around events in his own life?

Gerard's quest to unveil the mystery that shrouds his family, and his life, will lead him from Mawson to London, to a long-abandoned house and the terror of a ghost story come alive.

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Recensione:

"Atmospheric debut novel" (Emma Hagestadt The Independent)

"A compelling, atmospheric and well-crafted story" (Guardian)

"An elegant homage to the Victorian ghost story tradition... Makes your flesh creep" (The Times)

"Irresistible... Structured like a haunted mansion" (Observer)

"Harwood is enviable skilled, handling pacing, delivery and plot with assurance and sly humour... The Ghost Writer has powerful moments and...a delicacy and tenderness that make it wonderfully readable" (Times Literary Supplement)

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'Its complexities provoke a feverish breathlessness. Well written and subtly constructed' Ruth Rendell, Sunday Times

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0099460823
• ISBN 13: 9780099460824
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 374