2003, ISBN: 0374222150

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[EAN: 9780374222154], Neubuch, [PU: Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.], FICTION GHOST NEW ENGLAND, Jacket, Product Description: A ghos… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780374222154], Neubuch, [PU: Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.], FICTION GHOST NEW ENGLAND, Jacket, Product Description: A ghost story that begins in everday tragedy, from a distinctly American master of both forms: a "scary, sad, funny . . . mesmerizing read" (Stephen King) At Midnight on Halloween in a cloistered New England suburb, a car carrying five teenagers leaves a winding road and slams into a tree, killing three of them. One escapes unharmed, another suffers severe brain damage. A year later, summoned by the memories of those closest to them, the three that died come back on a last chilling mission among the living. A strange and unsettling ghost story in the tradition of Ray Bradbury and Shirley Jackson, The Night Country creeps through the leaf-strewn streets and quiet cul-de-sacs of one bedroom community, reaching into the desperately connected yet isolated lives of three people changed forever by the accident: Tim, who survived yet lost everything; Brooks, the cop whose guilty secret has destroyed his life; and Kyle's mom, trying to love the new son the doctors returned to her. As the day wanes and darkness falls, one of them puts a terrible plan into effect, and they find themselves caught in a collision of need and desire, watched over by the knowing ghosts. Macabre and moving, The Night Country elevates every small town's bad high school crash into myth, finding the deeper human truth beneath a shared and very American tragedy. As in his highly-prized Snow Angels and A Prayer for the Dying, once again Stewart O'Nan gives us an intimate look at people trying to hold on to hope, and the consequences when they fail. About the Author: Stewart O'Nan' s novels include Snow Angels, The Speed Queen, and A Prayer for the Dying. Granta has named him one of the Twenty Best Young American Novelists. He lives in Connecticut., Books<

ISBN: 9780374222154

Fair. Ships From Canada. Stamp on one of the first title pages and on the borders of the book. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 224 p. Audience: General/trade. Book Description: In her f… Mehr…

Fair. Ships From Canada. Stamp on one of the first title pages and on the borders of the book. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 224 p. Audience: General/trade. Book Description: In her first book, Nobody Nowhere, Donna Williams gave readers an incredible and unprecedented guided tour of the world of autism--a mysterious and little-understood condition. From her earliest years, Donna's world was dominated by disembodied patterns, sound, color, and movement. Cut off from her emotions and unable to make any true connections with other people, Donna lived largely in isolation, avoiding the incomprehensible actions of others yet yearning to be normal. After she endured twenty-five years of imprisonment, a diagnosis of autism enabled her to take the first steps toward freedom, to begin the arduous trek from her "'"world under glass"'" to the real world. Somebody Somewhere chronicles the four years since Donna's diagnosis and continues the journey she began in Nobody Nowhere. Certain that she can n, 2, New. Ships From Canada. New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 240 p. Audience: General/trade. Product Description: A ghost story that begins in everday tragedy, from a distinctly American master of both forms: a "'"scary, sad, funny...mesmerizing read"'" (Stephen King) At Midnight on Halloween in a cloistered New England suburb, a car carrying five teenagers leaves a winding road and slams into a tree, killing three of them. One escapes unharmed, another suffers severe brain damage. A year later, summoned by the memories of those closest to them, the three that died come back on a last chilling mission among the living. A strange and unsettling ghost story in the tradition of Ray Bradbury and Shirley Jackson, The Night Country creeps through the leaf-strewn streets and quiet cul-de-sacs of one bedroom community, reaching into the desperately connected yet isolated lives of three people changed forever by the accident: Tim, who survived yet lost everything; Brooks, the cop, 6<

ISBN: 9780374222154

New. Ships From Canada. New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 240 p. Audience: General/trade. Product Description: A ghost story that begins in everday tragedy, from a… Mehr…

New. Ships From Canada. New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 240 p. Audience: General/trade. Product Description: A ghost story that begins in everday tragedy, from a distinctly American master of both forms: a "'"scary, sad, funny...mesmerizing read"'" (Stephen King) At Midnight on Halloween in a cloistered New England suburb, a car carrying five teenagers leaves a winding road and slams into a tree, killing three of them. One escapes unharmed, another suffers severe brain damage. A year later, summoned by the memories of those closest to them, the three that died come back on a last chilling mission among the living. A strange and unsettling ghost story in the tradition of Ray Bradbury and Shirley Jackson, The Night Country creeps through the leaf-strewn streets and quiet cul-de-sacs of one bedroom community, reaching into the desperately connected yet isolated lives of three people changed forever by the accident: Tim, who survived yet lost everything; Brooks, the cop, 6<