Peter Straub masterfully weaves horror and suspense into a love story unlike any other: the ballad of Ballard and Sandrine. Ballard and his considerably younger lover Sandrine have been brought together by a shared erotic obsession of the darkest kind. As they travel down a remote part of the A
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
β Scribed by Karen Cushman
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;Clarion Books
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 252 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
In 1849 a twelve-year-old girl who calls herself Lucy is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a small California mining town. There Lucy helps run a boarding house and looks for comfort in books while trying to find a way to return "home."
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