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Seance by John Harwood (2009, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100547247826
ISBN-139780547247823
eBay Product ID (ePID)72414041
Product Key Features
Book TitleSeance
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2009
TopicMystery & Detective / Historical, Ghost, Historical
GenreFiction
AuthorJohn Harwood
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight10.2 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.3 in
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Dewey Edition22
Reviews[W]e are taken into the night side of Victorian belief: what possesses those possessed by spirits? Is real possession a possibility, and which is more frightening - if it is true, or if it is all a giant hoax'...The narrative, gracefully conceived, beautifully achieved, races along., Harwood brilliantly evokes the customs and language of the late Victorian period, in a tale set against the competing claims of the paranormal and Victorian science., 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, 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, *"Harwood's spellbinding second novel...pays homage to such nineteenth-century suspense masters as Wilkie Collins and Sheridan Le Fanu...Harwood invokes the hoariest cliches of supernatural suspense, from stormy nights to haunted houses, and effortlessly makes them his own.", 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
Dewey Decimal823/.92
SynopsisA haunting tale of apparitions, a cursed manor house, and two generations of women determined to discover the truth, by the author of The Ghost Writer Sell the Hall unseen; burn it to the ground and plow the earth with salt, if you will; but never live there . . ." Constance Langton grows up in a household marked by death, her father distant, her mother in perpetual mourning for Constance's sister, the child she lost.Desperate to coax her mother back to health, Constance takes her to a séance: perhaps she will find comfort from beyond the grave. But the meeting has tragic consequences. Constance is left alone, her only legacy a mysterious bequest that will blight her life. So begins The Séance, John Harwood's brilliant second novel, a gripping, dark mystery set in late-Victorian England. It is a world of apparitions, of disappearances and unnatural phenomena, of betrayal and blackmail and black-hearted villains--and murder. For Constance's bequest comes in two parts: a house and a mystery. Years before, a family disappeared atWraxford Hall, a decaying mansion in the English countryside with a sinister reputation.Now the Hall belongs to Constance. And she must descend into the darkness at the heart of theWraxford Mystery to find the truth, even at the cost of her life.
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