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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Novel
- ISBN
- 9780061624766
- Book Title
- Lace Reader : a Novel
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Psychological, Fantasy / Contemporary, Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Gothic
- Item Weight
- 20.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0061624764
ISBN-13
9780061624766
eBay Product ID (ePID)
64333125
Product Key Features
Book Title
Lace Reader : a Novel
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
Psychological, Fantasy / Contemporary, Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Gothic
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
20.5 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
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Evocative, layered, smart, and astonishing, THE LACE READER is a fever dream of a novel that will haunt me for a long time to come. The Salem, Massachusetts that the Whitney women inhabit is a wild, dark place, and I loved every moment that I spent there., The Lace Reader casts an enthralling spell...As The Lace Reader unspools, we are drawn into a whirling vortex of deceit. Barry untangles these confusing strands of mystery with an artful precision., Barry has written a meditative, lyric novel that in its discursive storytelling style full of digressions and expository sections on interesting facts will appeal to people who enjoy savoring a book one section at a time., Barry excels at capturing the feel of smalltown life, and balances action with close looks at the characters' inner worlds. Her pacing and use of different perspectives show tremendous skill and will keep readers captivated all the way through., Brunonia Barry has pulled off a major feat with her debut, The Lace Reader: It's a gorgeously written literary novel that's also a doozy of a thriller, capped with a jaw-dropping denouement that will leave even the most careful reader gasping., A 'romance' in the Nathaniel Hawthorne sense of the word a dark tale of sin and guilt that blends the mundane and the fantastic, with a glimmer of redemptive hope at its core that all the Gothic trappings cannot obscure., The Lace Reader is a page-turner, and the ending is almost as shocking as the film The Sixth Sense., Past and present mysteries merge in a fast-moving narrative that builds through a numerous small dramas to a theatrical conclusion., With THE LACE READER, Brunonia Barry plunges us through the looking glass and beyond to a creepy and fascinating world. Prepare to meet strange, brave, bruised, electrically alive women there. Prepare to be riveted by their story and to live under its spell long after you've reached its astonishing end., "Suspenseful and literary catnip-for-book-clubs...while it's surprisingly gritty for having "lace" in the title, we're calling this now as the beach read of '08.", What makes Brunonia Barry's compulsively readable debut even more interesting is the spice added by fillips both psychic and supernatural., An engrossing modern-day twist on the classic Gothic novel..the story both astonishes and satisfies. In short, The Lace Reader is great entertainment., What is real in The Lace Reader? What is not? To her credit Ms. Barry makes this story blithe and creepy in equal measure.... And there is much suspense invested in where all the lacunas in Towner's impressions will lead her...There are clues planted everywhere., Surprise endings are tough to pull off--too often they aren't a surprise to anyone but the main character. To Barry's credit, she genuinely got me., An ambitious debut. Unusual and otherworldly, this is a blizzard of a story which manages to pull together its historical, supernatural and psychiatric elements. A survivor's tale of redemption., The Lace Reader challenges the very notion of reality. A compelling, fast-action page turner. A terrific read!, Barry weaves a suspenseful tale of witchcraft and dark mystery.Barry's depictions of time and place are marvelously descriptive., Barry's modern-day story of Towner Whitney, who has the psychic gift to read the future in lace patterns, is complex but darker in subject matter.... The novel's gripping and shocking conclusion is a testament to Barry's creativity., Finely rendered moments make this a novel to savor-a story as textured as it is imaginative... a story that readers will find as lovely as a swatch of handmade lace., The Lace Reader unravels a magical, yet tragic family's tale...Barry has cleverly and delightfully set us up. With one fell swoop, she cuts the last thread, and the characters she has so carefully created unravel to reveal secrets we had not even begun to guess., Barry does a fantastic job of sketching out her characters. The Whitney women, one and all, are intriguingly real., "Barry's depictions of her characters' altered states of consciousness are beautifully rendered. And "The Lace Reader" establishes Brunonia Barry as a force...", A gorgeously written literary novel that's a doozy of a thriller, capped with a jaw-dropping denouement that will leave even the most careful reader gasping., Lovely and captivating...The Lace Reader showcases Barry's understanding of human nature. A splendid debut novel., A spine-tingler set in Salem...[with] an irresistible pull...The Lace Reader is tailor-made for a boisterous night at the book club.
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Synopsis
Every gift has a price . . . Every piece of lace has a secret . . .My name is Towner Whitney. No, That's not exactly true. My real first name is Sophya. Never believe me. I lie all the time . . .Towner Whitney, the self-confessed unreliable narrator of The Lace Reader, hails from a family of Salem women who can read the future in the patterns in lace, and who have guarded a history of secrets going back generations, but the disappearance of two women brings Towner home to Salem and the truth about the death of her twin sister to light. The Lace Reader is a mesmerizing tale that spirals into a world of secrets, confused identities, lies, and half-truths in which the reader quickly finds it's nearly impossible to separate fact from fiction, but as Towner Whitney points out early on in the novel, "There are no accidents.", In the tradition of The Thirteenth Tale, Brunonia Barry's bewitching gothic novel, The Lace Reader, is a phenomenon. Called "[a] richly imagined saga of passion, suspense, and magic" by Time Magazine, it is a haunting and remarkable tale told by an unforgettable, if strangely unreliable narrator--a woman from an enigmaticSalem family who can foretell the future in patterns of lace. The Lace Reader was a runaway New York Times bestseller--hitting the top lists in major cities across the country, fromBostontoChicagotoLos Angeles--and has immediately established debut author Brunonia Barry as a major force in contemporary American fiction., In the tradition of The Thirteenth Tale, Brunonia Barry's bewitching gothic novel, The Lace Reader, is a phenomenon. Called " a] richly imagined saga of passion, suspense, and magic" by Time Magazine, it is a haunting and remarkable tale told by an unforgettable, if strangely unreliable narrator--a woman from an enigmatic Salem family who can foretell the future in patterns of lace. The Lace Reader was a runaway New York Times bestseller--hitting the top lists in major cities across the country, from Boston to Chicago to Los Angeles--and has immediately established debut author Brunonia Barry as a major force in contemporary American fiction.
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