Reviews
Praise for The Ghost Writer "Elegantly paced and delightfully macabre, [ The Ghost Writer ] celebrate[s] the Victorian school and its obsession with the past's authority over the present, the thin line between affection and obsession, the glimpse of the lurid from the corner of the eye."- Washington Post Book World " The Ghost Writer manages to evoke both the confident past and the more anguished present of the genre, and even to suggest, slyly, that although the illustrious tradition of the genteel British ghost story remains with us, we need to be very, very careful about disturbing its rest."- New York Times Book Review, Praise for The Ghost Writer eoeElegantly paced and delightfully macabre, [ The Ghost Writer ] celebrate[s] the Victorian school and its obsession with the paste(tm)s authority over the present, the thin line between affection and obsession, the glimpse of the lurid from the corner of the eye.ee" Washington Post Book World eoe The Ghost Writer manages to evoke both the confident past and the more anguished present of the genre, and even to suggest, slyly, that although the illustrious tradition of the genteel British ghost story remains with us, we need to be very, very careful about disturbing its rest.ee" New York Times Book Review, Praise for The Ghost Writer "Elegantly paced and delightfully macabre, [ The Ghost Writer ] celebrate[s] the Victorian school and its obsession with the past's authority over the present, the thin line between affection and obsession, the glimpse of the lurid from the corner of the eye."-- Washington Post Book World " The Ghost Writer manages to evoke both the confident past and the more anguished present of the genre, and even to suggest, slyly, that although the illustrious tradition of the genteel British ghost story remains with us, we need to be very, very careful about disturbing its rest."-- New York Times Book Review, Praise for The Ghost Writer "Elegantly paced and delightfully macabre, [ The Ghost Writer ] celebrate[s] the Victorian school and its obsession with the past's authority over the present, the thin line between affection and obsession, the glimpse of the lurid from the corner of the eye."-- Washington Post Book World " The Ghost Writer manages to evoke both the confident past and the more anguished present of the genre, and even to suggest, slyly, that although the illustrious tradition of the genteel British ghost story remains with us, we need to be very, very careful about disturbing its rest."-- New York Times Book Review