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Lost: A Novel Paperback - 2002
by Maguire, Gregory
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
In this third novel by the acclaimed bestselling author of "Wicked" and "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, " famed children's book author Winifred Rudge travels to London to research a book about a woman who is being haunted by Jack the Ripper. Line drawings. Print features.
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- Title Lost: A Novel
- Author Maguire, Gregory
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William Morrow Paperbacks, New York
- Date 2002-09-17
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0060988649-3-18802828
- ISBN 9780060988647 / 0060988649
- Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
- Dimensions 9.28 x 6.16 x 0.99 in (23.57 x 15.65 x 2.51 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects London (England), Ghost stories
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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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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- Booksense '76 Sep/Oct 2002, 09/01/2002, Page 1