Angelica

Zusatztext “A masterpiece . . . seamlessly mixes psychological disintegration! the dissolution of a marriage and . . . a classic ghost story.” — USA Today   “ 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 “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 Informationen zum Autor Arthur Phillips Klappentext "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 WorldI I suppose my prescribed busywork should begin as a ghost story, since that was surely Constance’s experience of these events. I fear, however, that the term arouses unreasonable expectations in you. I scarcely expect to frighten you of all people, even if you should read this by snickering candle and creaking floorboards. Or with me lying at your feet. So. A ghost story! The scene opens in unthreatening daylight, the morning Joseph cast the child out of their bedroom. The horror tales Constance kept at her bedside always opened peacefully, and so shall hers: The burst of morning sunlight startled the golden dust off the enfolded crimson drapery and drew fine black veins at the edges of the walnut-brown sill. The casement wants repainting, she thought. The distant irregular trills of Angelica’s uncertain fingers stumbling across the piano keys downstairs, the floury aroma of the first loaves rising from the kitchen: from within this thick foliage of domestic safety his coiled rage found her unprepared. “I have suffered this insult too long,” he said. “I cannot countenance a single night more of this—this reversal of nature. You encourage this upending of my authority. You delight in it,” he accused. “It ends now. Angelica has a bedroom and shall sleep in it. Am I understood? You have made us ridiculous. Are you blind to this? Answer me. Answer!” “If she should, my dear, after all, call out for me in the night?” “Then go to her or not. The question is of no significance to me, and I strongly doubt that it is of any to her.” Joseph pointed at the small bed, unobt...

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• Autori: Arthur Phillips
• Editore: Random House USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 12.02.2008
• EAN: 9780812972603
• ISBN: 978-0-8129-7260-3
• Pagine: 345
• Dimensioni: 127 mm x 210 mm x 19 mm
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi