Este sitio utiliza cookies para ofrecer nuestros servicios, mejorar el rendimiento, análisis y (si no estás registrado) publicidad. Al usar LibraryThing reconoces que has leído y comprendido nuestros términos de servicio y política de privacidad. El uso del sitio y de los servicios está sujeto a estas políticas y términos.
Fiction.
Literature.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:??A masterpiece . . . seamlessly mixes psychological disintegration, the dissolution of a marriage and . . . a classic ghost story.???USA Today NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE ? NATIONAL BESTSELLER /> ??Angelica impresses first as a clever send-up of the late Victorian novel, and then becomes its own very original thing. It is engrossing, deeply moving, and??precisely because it is moving??very frightening.???Stephen King London, the 1880s. In the dark of night, a chilling spectre is making its way through the Barton household, hovering over the sleeping daughter and terrorizing her fragile mother. Are these visions real, or is there something more sinister, and more human, to fear? As the family??s story is told several times from different perspectives, events are recast, sym- pathies shift, and nothing is as it seems.
Set at the dawn of psychoanalysis and the peak of spiritualism??s acceptance, Angelica is a spellbinding Victorian ghost story, an intriguing literary and psychological puzzle, and a thoroughly modern exploration of identity, reality, and love.
Praise for Angelica
??Starts as a ghost story . . . turns into a spectacular, ever-proliferating tale of mingled motives, psychological menace, and delicately told crises of appetite and loneliness.???The New Yorker
??Spellbinding . . . cements this young novelist??s reputation as one of the best writers in America.???The Washington Post Book World BONUS: This edition contains excerpts from Arthur Phillips's The Tragedy of Arthur, The Song… (más)
My least favorite Phillips novel so far but that still puts it far above most stuff out there. Yes it is redundent and maybe sort of a failed experiment in pseudo-Victorian novel writing but his themes of relativity and perspective are portrayed in an unique manner that's somewhat enjoyable. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Scientific examination of the spiritual or "occulist" experience demonstrates that haunting can emerge from the forgotten depths of our own past, and assume physical and externalized form, now independent of the memories that spawned it, as Athena sprang from the head of Zeus, of him but at once free of him. Memories and ghost are not so easily distinguished as previous generations have assumed. -Sir Everett D'Oyly, 1889
Dedicatoria
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
For Jan, of course
Primeras palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
I suppose my prescribed busywork should begin as a ghost story, since that was surely Constance's experience of these events.
Citas
Últimas palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Your promises unfulfillable, my fascination fading, you ache to summon from your waiting room-with your seductive scientific mien-the next pretty hysteric.
Fiction.
Literature.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:??A masterpiece . . . seamlessly mixes psychological disintegration, the dissolution of a marriage and . . . a classic ghost story.???USA Today NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE ? NATIONAL BESTSELLER ??Angelica impresses first as a clever send-up of the late Victorian novel, and then becomes its own very original thing. It is engrossing, deeply moving, and??precisely because it is moving??very frightening.???Stephen King London, the 1880s. In the dark of night, a chilling spectre is making its way through the Barton household, hovering over the sleeping daughter and terrorizing her fragile mother. Are these visions real, or is there something more sinister, and more human, to fear? As the family??s story is told several times from different perspectives, events are recast, sym- pathies shift, and nothing is as it seems.
Set at the dawn of psychoanalysis and the peak of spiritualism??s acceptance, Angelica is a spellbinding Victorian ghost story, an intriguing literary and psychological puzzle, and a thoroughly modern exploration of identity, reality, and love.
Praise for Angelica
??Starts as a ghost story . . . turns into a spectacular, ever-proliferating tale of mingled motives, psychological menace, and delicately told crises of appetite and loneliness.???The New Yorker
??Spellbinding . . . cements this young novelist??s reputation as one of the best writers in America.???The Washington Post Book World BONUS: This edition contains excerpts from Arthur Phillips's The Tragedy of Arthur, The Song
▾Descripciones de biblioteca
No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca.
▾Descripción de los miembros de LibraryThing
Descripción del libro
Resumen Haiku
Autor de LibraryThing
Arthur Phillips es un Autor de LibraryThing, un autor que tiene listada su biblioteca personal en LibraryThing.
)
)
)
Google Books — Cargando...
1
This isn't a ghost story -- she's just nuts!
(