Women and Ghosts: A Collection
β Scribed by Alison Lurie
- Book ID
- 111142362
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 432 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780307828569
- ASIN
- B009MYCOO0
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β¦ Synopsis
The author of The War Between the Tates and the Pulitzer prize-winning Foreign Affairs now brings her irresistible wit to the ghost story.
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In nine spooky tales, Alison Lurie writes of women haunted by ghosts both literal and metaphorical: A woman about to marry Mr. Right is visited by the spirit of his first wife; a dead fiancΓ© haunts a foreign service officer every time she has an intimate moment with another man; the ghost of a girl in a Halloween costume disconcerts the perfect housewife. A secretary on a diet begins to see obese people everywhere she looks; a self-conscious poet is shadowed by her intrusive doppelganger; and a capricious, malevolent spirit seems to have inhabited an acquisitive matronβs prized piece of furniture.
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Delightfully strange and beautifully told, these nine tales show Alison Lurie at her luminous best.
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