After Life - Couverture souple

Ellis, Rhian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0141001534 ISBN 13 : 9780141001531

Editeur : Penguin, 2001

Synopsis

In a debut novel of psychological suspense, Naomi Ash and her medium mother relocate to Train Line, a small town populated by spiritualists and mediums, where Naomi comes of age, struggling to come to terms with her own spiritual talents, until er Norton, a handsome young graduate student, arrives in town, and Naomi falls in love. Reprint.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Naomi Ash was born in New Orleans and raised by her mother, Patsy, a medium who schooled her young daughter in the parlor-trick chicanery of the trade. From Naomi recreating presences with table cloths to providing the voice of the dead by talking through a fan, their act is part theater, part magic, and a little too much playing with the letter of the law. Eventually they must beat a hasty—and forced—retreat from New Orleans, relocating to Train Line, New York.

A sleepy village founded and inhabited by others with a spiritualist bent, Train Line is populated with card readers, table levitators, and crystal-shop owners. Low- rent “Psychic Faires” are held at the local Holiday Inn, and Patsy’s newest creation, “The Mother Galina Psychic Hour,” is on the local radio station. The town is a curious mix between old school “table rappers” and the New Age, and it is here that Naomi comes of age, learns the trade, and falls in love. But love is not only a many splendored thing—it can be dangerous as well. And for a young woman caught between fraud and truth, between the world of the living and the world of the dead, and between the secrets and lies of her youth, the past and present will come together in a rush of truth and consequence.

Hailed as “a study of eccentricities, which rises above the merely quirky to address those issues of life, death, memory, and love that preoccupy us all,” After Life is a stunning first novel of extraordinary suspense and evocative imagery.

Biographie de l'auteur

Rhian Ellis grew up in Western New York State. She went to Oberlin College and the University of Montana, and she now lives in Ithaca, New York, with her husband, the writer J. Robert Lennon, their two sons, and many chickens.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0141001534
• ISBN 13: 9780141001531
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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