As Simple as Snow - Brossura

Galloway, Gregory

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0147515815 ISBN 13: 9780147515810

Casa editrice: Speak, 2015

Riassunto

Annawho prefers to be called Anastasiais a spooky and complicated high school girl with a penchant for riddles, Houdini tricks, and ghost stories. She is unlike anyone the narrator has ever known, and they make an unlikely, though happy, pair. Then Anna disappears, leaving behind only a dress near a hole in the frozen river, and a string of unanswered questions. Desperate to find out what happened the narrator begins to reconstruct the past five months. And soon the fragments of curious events, intimate conversations, secrets, lettersand the anonymous messages that continue to arrivecoalesce into haunting and surprising revelations that may implicate friends, relatives, and even Anna herself.

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Recensione:

"This strange tale manages to creep under your skin, and to stay there for some time."--People

"The writing is compelling; the pace as swift as that water churning under the ice."--The Cleveland Plain Dealer

"A story about young love, suffused with mystery and magic . . . an absorbing read."--The Des Moines Register

"This rich, complex puzzle is the work of a talented author."--Publishers Weekly

"An intriguing debut."--School Library Journal

"Oddly mesmerizing . . . it's teasing foreshadowings and forbodings make it hard to forget."--Booklist

"Galloway does an excellent job of building suspense."--Library Journal

"One of the best books I've read in a long, long time."-Kaye Gibbons

L'autore:

Gregory Galloway received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is the author ofAs Simple as Snow, winner of the Alex Award, and The 39 Deaths of Adam Strand.

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• Editore: Speak
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0147515815
• ISBN 13: 9780147515810
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352