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Affinity by Sarah Waters (2002, Trade Paperback, Reprint)

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"Gothic tale, psychological study, puzzle narrative...This is gripping, astute fiction that feeds the mind and senses."-- The Seattle Times An upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women's ward of Millbank prison, Victorian London's grimmest jail, as part of her rehabilitative charity work. Amongst Millbank's murderers and common thieves, Margaret finds herself increasingly fascinated by on apparently innocent inmate, the enigmatic spiritualist Selina Dawes. Selina was imprisoned after a séance she was conducting went horribly awry, leaving an elderly matron dead and a young woman deeply disturbed. Although initially skeptical of Selina's gifts, Margaret is soon drawn into a twilight world of ghosts and shadows, unruly spirits and unseemly passions, until she is at last driven to concoct a desperate plot to secure Selina's freedom, and her own. As in her noteworthy deput, Tipping the Velvet , Sarah Waters brilliantly evokes the sights and smells of a moody and beguiling nineteenth-century London, and proves herself yet again a storyteller, in the words of the New York Times Book Review , of "startling power."

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1573228737
ISBN-13
9781573228732
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1909216

Product Key Features

Book Title
Affinity
Author
Sarah Waters
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Topic
Occult & Supernatural, Ghost, Thrillers / General, Historical
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
368 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
11.4 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Pr6073.A828 A69 2000
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Grade to
Up
Edition Description
Reprint
Reviews
"[ Affinity ] confirms Waters' uncanny gift for establishing an instant connection between her readers and her flawed yet compelling central protagonistsâ€¦she's a novelist of major rank [who] probes into questions of difference and susceptibility, privilege and confinement, betrayal and loss - and there are few young writers out there who can match it." - The Seattle Times "The novel takes numerous surprising twists and turns before the startling resolutionâ€¦superbâ€¦Waters pulls out all the stops." - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "If lesbian fiction is to reach a wider readership, Waters is the person to carry the banner." - The New York Times Book Review "The author of Tipping the Velvet displays her incredible talent for the Gothic historical novel in this splendid book about a Victorian women's prison and the affair there between an inmate and a 'lady visitor.'" - The San Francisco Chronicle "Unfolds sinuously and ominouslyâ€¦a powerful plot-twister. The book is multidimensional: a naturalistic look at Victorian society; a truly suspenseful tale of terrâˆ¨ and a piece of elegant, thinly veiled eroticaâ€¦Like a Ouija board, Affinity offers different messages to different readers, scaring the shrouds off everyone in the process." - USA Today "Waters has perfect pitch in her representations of bourgeois Victorian life, the puritanical misery of prisons in the 1870s, and the spiritualist subcultureâ€¦a deeply absorbing book." - The Advocate, "Unfolds sinuously and ominouslyâ€¦a powerful plot-twisterâ€¦a truly suspenseful tale of terrâˆ¨ and a piece of elegant, thinly veiled erotica. Like a Ouija board, Affinity offers different messages to different readers, scaring the shrouds off everyone in the process." - USA Today "[Waters] displays her incredible talent for the Gothic historical novel in this splendid book about a Victorian women's prison and the affair there between an inmate and a 'lady visitor.'" - San Francisco Chronicle "Gothic tale, psychological study, puzzle narrativeâ€¦superbly suspensefulâ€¦This is gripping, astute fiction that feeds the mind and senses." - The Seattle Times, "Unfolds sinuously and ominously...a powerful plot-twister...a truly suspenseful tale of terror; and a piece of elegant, thinly veiled erotica. Like a Ouija board, Affinity offers different messages to different readers, scaring the shrouds off everyone in the process." -- USA Today "[Waters] displays her incredible talent for the Gothic historical novel in this splendid book about a Victorian women's prison and the affair there between an inmate and a 'lady visitor.'" -- San Francisco Chronicle "Gothic tale, psychological study, puzzle narrative...superbly suspenseful...This is gripping, astute fiction that feeds the mind and senses." -- The Seattle Times
Copyright Date
1999
Lccn
99-087554
Dewey Decimal
823/.914
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21

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by U8_wbqSoSYG@Del...May 10, 2007
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This is the first book by Sarah Waters that I have read. It was kinda slow in the beginning, but about 1/4 of the way through I was not able to put it down. I love this type of story line about the supernatural and spirtitual world, and this book just blew me away. I always had me intrigued to keep reading to find out what was going to happen next. I would recommend it to anyone not only to ppl who are interested in the spiritual world.

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