Lost: A Novel
by Maguire, Gregory
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Like New/Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0060393823
- ISBN 13
- 9780060393823
- Seller
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West Poland, Maine, United States
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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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- Bookseller
- Never Too Many Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21040198
- Title
- Lost: A Novel
- Author
- Maguire, Gregory
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Like New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060393823
- ISBN 13
- 9780060393823
- Publisher
- William Morrow
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001-10-02
- Size
- 6x1x9
- X weight
- 18 oz
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