Gregory Maguire

Lost (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 shadessome 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780061748660
• Artikelnr.: 37993833

Autorenporträt

Gregory Maguire is the New York Times bestselling author of the Wicked Years, a series that includes Wickedthe beloved classic that is the basis for the blockbuster Tony Awardwinning Broadway musical of the same name and the major motion pictureSon of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz. His series Another Day continues the story of Oz with The Brides of Maracoor, The Oracle of Maracoor, and The Witch of Maracoor, and his other novels include A Wild Winter Swan, Hiddensee, After Alice, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Lost, and Mirror Mirror. He lives in New England and France.