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Swyler, Erika

 
9781250055637: The Book of Speculation: Includes Bonus Short Story
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1250055636 ISBN 13 : 9781250055637
Editeur : St. Martin's Griffin, 2016

Synopsis

One of BuzzFeed's Best Fiction Books of the Year

**Includes a bonus short story, "The Mermaid Girl"**

In the tradition of Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants, Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, and Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian, The Book of Speculation--with two-color illustrations by the author--is Erika Swyler's moving debut novel about the power of books, family, and magic.
Simon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone in a house that is slowly crumbling toward the Long Island Sound. His parents are long dead. His mother, a circus mermaid who made her living by holding her breath, drowned in the very water his house overlooks. His younger sister, Enola, ran off six years ago and now reads tarot cards for a traveling carnival.

One June day, an old book arrives on Simon's doorstep, sent by an antiquarian bookseller who purchased it on speculation. Fragile and water damaged, the book is a log from the owner of a traveling carnival in the 1700s, who reports strange and magical things, including the drowning death of a circus mermaid. Since then, generations of "mermaids" in Simon's family have drowned--always on July 24, which is only weeks away.

As his friend Alice looks on with alarm, Simon becomes increasingly worried about his sister. Could there be a curse on Simon's family? What does it have to do with the book, and can he get to the heart of the mystery in time to save Enola?

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À propos de l'auteur

ERIKA SWYLER is a graduate of New York University and the author of the bestselling novels Light from Other Stars and The Book of Speculation. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in Literary Hub, Catapult Story, VIDA, The New York Times, and elsewhere.

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Éditeur
St. Martin's Griffin
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1250055636
ISBN 13 
9781250055637
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
384
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Personne responsable
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