Rooms - Couverture rigide

Oliver, Lauren

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1444760769 ISBN 13 : 9781444760767

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton, 2014

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'Oliver has a terrific talent for old-fashioned storytelling, nailing your attention from the first sentence.' (The Times)

Oliver has a caustic sense of humour, splicing the shattering emotional chaos with pitch-black comedy (Metro)

A smoky and realistic ghost story that subverts cliche...this satisfying novel will be enjoyed by Oliver's fans and bring new ones to the fold. (Kirkus Reviews)

Imaginative and engaging...cleverly imagined and plotted. (Star Tribune)

This book grips hard - it's impossible to put down, and there is no lull - the pacing is perfect. (The Book Bag)

A chilling ghost story, and much, much more: ROOMS is a magnificent gothic fugue on the themes of longing and buried secrets (Lev Grossman, bestselling author of The Magicians Trilogy)

A sensational novel that easily glides between the normal and the paranormal. At times humorous, at times heartbreaking, ROOMS is always emotionally resonant and, despite the presence of ghosts, very, very real. (Ivy Pochoda, author of Visitation Street)

A powerful haunted house story ... Excellently paced... Ultimately, Rooms is an outstanding novel, with a brilliant array of characters...compelling and difficult to put away...it has stuck with me in ways that few books do. Oliver's particular blend of fantasy is at times funny, other times heartbreaking (io9)

In this spectral soap opera there's fun to be had as the plot's many traps are set and then snapped shut (New York Times)

Oliver skillfully weaves her tales together clearly and cleanly... The real strength of this novel is Oliver's knack for rendering charmingly flawed characters with real-life problems and complicated relationships... Oliver's prose is crisp and clean; it gives the book much of its energy (Washington Independent Review of Books)

Quatrième de couverture :

After a number of highly acclaimed New York Times bestsellers, including the Delirium trilogy and the standalone novels Before I Fall and Panic, Lauren Oliver returns with a spellbinding tale that confirms her place as one of our finest storytellers. Fueled by the same inspired feel for plot and character that drew readers to Oliver's earlier works, Rooms is a mesmerizing and suspenseful story of guilt, love, and family secrets.

Estranged patriarch Richard Walker has died, leaving behind a country house full of rooms packed with the detritus of a lifetime. His alienated family—bitter ex-wife Caroline, troubled teenage son Trenton, and unforgiving daughter Minna—have arrived for their inheritance.

But the Walkers are not alone. Alice and Sandra, two long-dead and restless ghosts, linger within the house's claustrophobic walls, bound eternally to its physical structure. Jostling for space and memory, they observe the family, trading barbs and reminiscences about their past lives. Though their voices cannot be heard, Alice and Sandra speak through the house itself—in the hiss of the radiator, a creak in the stairs, the dimming of a lightbulb.

The living and dead are haunted by painful truths that surface with explosive force. When a new ghost appears, and Trenton begins to communicate with her, the spirit and human worlds collide—with cataclysmic results.

Elegantly constructed and brilliantly paced, Rooms is an enticing and imaginative ghost story and a searing family drama that is as haunting as it is resonant.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Hodder & Stoughton
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1444760769
• ISBN 13: 9781444760767
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352