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Lost Boy Lost Girl

by Straub, Peter

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Random House Inc, New York, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 281 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in fine condition.. Dust Jacket un-clipped. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This BOOK IS IN STOCK and READY TO MAIL NOW. Your book when ordered will be securely packed and promptly dispatched by Great Southern Books. For its high artistry and uncanny mix of dread and hope, Straub's 16th novel, his shortest in decades, reaffirms the author's standing as the most literate and, with his occasional coauthor Stephen King, most persuasive of contemporary novelists of the dark fantastic. Straub remains a master of place and character; his insight into teens, in particular, is astonishingly astute. His myriad narrative framings allow multiple interpretations of events, making this story work on many levels, yet they also increase the urgency of the story, up to its incandescent ending. With great compassion and in prose as supple as mink, Straub has created an exciting, fearful, wondrous tale about people who matter, in one of his finest books to date. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Horror. ISBN: 1400060923. ISBN/EAN: 9781400060924. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3904. . 9781400060924

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A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son--beautiful, troubled fifteen-year-old Mark Underhill--vanishes from the face of the earth. To his uncle, horror novelist Timothy Underhill, Mark's inexplicable absence feels like a second death. After his sister-in-law's funeral, Tim searches his hometown of Millhaven for clues that might help him unravel this mystery of death and disappearance. He soon learns that a pedophilic murderer is on the loose in the vicinity, and that shortly before his mother's suicide Mark had become obsessed with an abandoned house where he imagined the killer might have taken refuge. No mere empty building, the house on Michigan Street whispers from attic to basement with the echoes of a long-hidden true-life horror story, and Tim Underhill comes to fear that in investigating its unspeakable history, Mark stumbled across its last and greatest secret: a ghostly lost girl who may have coaxed the needy, suggestible boy into her mysterious domain.With lost boy lost girl, Peter Straub affirms once again that he is the master of literary horror.From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller
Great Southern Books AU (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #
3904
Title
Lost Boy Lost Girl
Author
Straub, Peter
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
New As New
Jacket Condition
Fine
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
ISBN 10
1400060923
ISBN 13
9781400060924
Publisher
Random House Inc
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2003
Keywords
BZDB137 horror, crime, fiction, straub, Fiction; Horror. ISBN: 1400060923 EAN: 9781400060924 Straub, Peter Lost Boy Lost Girl

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