Lost : a novel / Gregory Maguire.
In this third novel by the acclaimed bestselling author of "Wicked" and "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister", famed children's book author Winifred Rudge travels to London to research a book about a woman who is being haunted by Jack the Ripper. 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780060988647
- ISBN: 0060393823
- Physical Description: 339 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Regan Books, [2001]
- Copyright: ©2001
Content descriptions
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Machine generated contents note: Stave One: -- Somebody Else in the Vehicle -- 1 --Stave Two: -- At the Flat in Weatherall Walk -- 37 --Stave Three: -- From the Chimney Inside the Chimney -- 117 --Stave Four: -- As Dante in the Purgatorio -- 191 --Stave Five: -- For the Time Being -- 303 --Acknowledgments -- 337.
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- 9 of 9 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Jacksonville Main Library | Fic Maguire C-90 (Text) | 36015000333894 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
