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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780060787110
ISBN: 0060787112
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: September 01, 2005
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Sales Rank: 215313
Studio: Harper Perennial
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Before the sweet delight of Chocolat, before the heady concoction that is Blackberry Wine, and before the tart pleasures of Five Quarters of the Orange, bestselling author Joanne Harris wrote Sleep, Pale Sister -- a gothic tourde-force that recalls the powerfully dark sensibility of her novel Holy Fools.
Originally published in 1994 -- and never before available in the United States -- Sleep, Pale Sister is a hypnotically atmospheric story set in nineteenth century London. When puritanical artist Henry Chester sees delicate child beauty Effie, he makes her his favorite model and, before long, his bride. But Henry, volatile and repressed, is in love with an ideal. Passive, docile, and asexual, the woman he projects onto Effie is far from the woman she really is. And when Effie begins to discover the murderous depths of Henry's hypocrisy, her latent passion will rise to the surface.
Sleep, Pale Sister combines the ethereal beauty of a Pre-Raphaelite painting with a chilling high gothic tale and is a testament to Harris's brimming cornucopia of talents.
This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
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Sleep, Pale Sister / 0-06-078711-2
This is a spectacular read from an incredible novelist. Make no mistake about it: this is not just a great novel, this is a great Harris novel, which is a much higher bar to set.
"Sleep, Pale Sister" grabs you from the first page and never lets go. As you are dragged through the lives of one pale victim and her three persecutors, you are shown by turns the motivations and inner thoughts of her tormentors, by the careful, compelling switches ... Read More
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I must say, this was one of the best books I've read in a long time. It starts off like a typical historical novel, but soon the story has you enmeshed with more twists and alternate realities! The story was a true cloud of drug induced confusion, and it is a refreshing change from so many novels published today. Plus, the story line is never predictable. I highly recommend this book!
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What seems at first a man's Svengali-like obsession with a pure young woman and another man's seduction that female proves to be but a part of a clever plot that twists and turns in unexpected ways, producing a darkly gothic ambiance that reeks of menace. At the center of everyone's fascination is the ethereal Effie, a frail girl with streaming white-blonde hair, who becomes the singular model for artist Henry Paul Chester. In the Victorian fashion, Chester makes clear moral distinctions, ... Read More
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Effie is a child muse to painter Henry Chester, a religiously devout, yet unpiously checkered man who takes her as his wife and molds her into his pure, innocent, flawless, and unsensual doll of a woman. Growing up in the dysfunctional bubble of Henry's existence, Effie is instructed to quell all creative endeavors, intellectual or otherwise in the name of what is the right and "proper" way for a woman to behave. All the while she is in a laudanum-induced fog forced upon her by her hysteric husband. ... Read More
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All that one can say about this book is that it's "Gothic". Yeah, right. Here are ghosts, witches, mad wives in the attic, black cats and other mandatory attributes. But probably, "gothic" decorations are not enough for a book, there should be something else. Something that I failed to find. The novel is tedious and empty. A weak attempt to create a thriller rather failed, the plot is hardly glued together, the episodes that are probably supposed to scare remind a bad horror movie that is full of dark rooms, ... Read More
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