Lost: A Novel
by Gregory Maguire
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Excellent condition.
- ISBN 10
- 0060393823
- ISBN 13
- 9780060393823
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
E-book extras: The full text of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; reading group guide.Winifred Rudge, a bemused writer struggling to get beyond the runaway success of her mass-market astrology book, travels to London to jump-start her new novel about a woman who is being haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper. Upon her arrival, she finds that her stepcousin and old friend John Comestor has disappeared, and a ghostly presence seems to have taken over his home. Is the spirit Winnie's great-great-grandfather, who, family legend claims, was Charles Dickens's childhood inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge? Could it be the ghostly remains of Jack the Ripper? Or a phantasm derived from a more arcane and insidious origin? Winnie begins to investigate and finds herself the unwilling audience for a drama of specters and shades -- some from her family's peculiar history and some from her own unvanquished past.In the spirit of A. S. Byatt's Possession, with dark echoing overtones of A Christmas Carol, Lost presents a rich fictional world that will enrapture its readers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Vandello Books, Member IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 200808190041OFFFHMA
- Title
- Lost: A Novel
- Author
- Gregory Maguire
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Excellent condition.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0060393823
- ISBN 13
- 9780060393823
- Publisher
- William Morrow
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001-10-01
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
Vandello Books, Member IOBA
Returns accepted within 30 days of purchase.
About the Seller
Vandello Books, Member IOBA
About Vandello Books, Member IOBA
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