The Keeper - Couverture souple

Langan, Sarah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0755333713 ISBN 13 : 9780755333714

Editeur : Headline Book Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

The rain falls ceaselessly on the town of Bedford as it braces itself for the annual floods that heralds the end of winter. But this year the sense of misery is more pervasive than ever. The Clott paper mill, the town's biggest employer, has shut and the town, already polluted by the chemicals the mill used, faces a desperate future. Liz and Susan Marley are two sisters who are poles apart. Susan, beautiful and disturbed, abused by her father and, even after he died, rejected by a mother unable to confront her own guilt, lives in squalor in the wrong part of town. She wanders silently around the town, inappropriately dressed, never speaking and letting herself be picked up by men in bars. She is the town witch, the town's guilty secret. Liz is years younger than Susan, in her last year of high school and worried about her looks, her weight, how popular she is, whether she will ever get out of Bedford and above all why her sister hates her so much. She dreams about Susan, vividly, horrifically, dreams in which Susan tries to kill her, dreams from which she awakes strangely bruised. But it turns out that everyone in Bedford dreams about Susan Marley, strange, disturbing dreams of destruction and loathing. And when Susan Marley commits suicide, betrayed by life one final petty time, her death unleashes a hail of destruction on the town of Bedford that is more terrifying than any dream.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sarah grew up on Long Island and went to college in Waterville, Maine, where she published her first story, "Sick People". She got her MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. In addition to writing novels, she is also pursuing her Master's in Environmental Health Science/Toxicology at New York University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Headline Book Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0755333713
• ISBN 13: 9780755333714
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 480
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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