Cloud
β Scribed by McCormack, Eric
- Book ID
- 109172663
- Publisher
- Penguin Canada
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 304 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780143191285
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
"Why, when we take such care to disguise our true selves from others, would we expect them to be an open book to us?"
Harry Steen, a businessman travelling in Mexico, ducks into an old bookstore to escape a frightening deluge. Inside, he makes a serendipitous discovery: a mid-nineteenth- century account of a sinister storm cloud that plagued an isolated Scottish village and caused many gruesome and unexplainable deaths. Harry knows the village well; he travelled there as a young man to take up a teaching post following the death of his parents. It was there that he met the woman whose love and betrayal have haunted him every day since. Presented with this astonishing record, Harry resolves to seek out the ghosts of his past and return to the very place where he encountered the fathomless depths of his own heart.
With Cloud, critically acclaimed Canadian author Eric McCormack has written a masterpiece of literary Gothicism, an intimate and perplexing study of how the past...
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