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When the death of a respected professor's wife reveals an illicit relationship between a student and his teacher, Atherton University becomes the scene of ever escalating intrigue, speculation, dark desires, fear, and violence. By the author of A Density of Souls. 150,000 first printing.
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The Snow Garden is the second novel from Christopher Rice, author of A Density of Souls. Rice's debut marked him out as a writer of irresistible narrative skills--this was a gothic mystery rich in atmospheric detail and some highly individual characterisation. Similar elements appear in The Snow Garden, but in some ways this second book is even more assured than its predecessor, with the emotional lives of its youthful protagonists (freshmen at Atherton University) delineated with real intelligence. Jesse, Randall and Kathryn find themselves connected by more than just their mutual studies.
In an ice-bound river, a professor's wife has drowned, and the unruffled surface of campus life at Atherton University is becoming agitated. Randall has had an affair with the professor, and revelations are pending in the local press. Rumours grow, and people in the town make connections with a similar death many years earlier, and the deception that binds the three friends together threatens to destroy them utterly.
It would be foolish to deny that the plot does not have strong echoes of Donna Tartt's much-acclaimed The Secret History, but Christopher Rice is very much his own man and such allusions are only momentarily distracting. Perhaps the gothic elements (so skilfully handled here) should not be too much of a surprise, as the author's mother is no less than Anne Rice, doyenne of the epic vampire novel. And as this contemporary horror story moves ineluctably to its chilling conclusion, Anne Rice may not be pleased by the fact that her son's book is considerably more impressive than anything she herself has done in some time. And the pulse-racing set-pieces here will no doubt soon be inspiring a bidding war in Hollywood. --Barry Forshaw
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"Out magazine"
Praised as "an engaging, chilling tale," Christopher Rice's artful and erotic "New York Times" bestseller entices readers into the unspoken recesses of desire, corruption, and true horror.
"Library Journal"
Rife with murder, fear, madness, and homoeroticism.
"Booklist"
An enthralling narrative....[Rice] expertly builds suspense.
"The London Times"
Rice's novels are becoming as addictive as those of his mother, Anne.
"Out magazine"
A dark, moody thriller...moves at full speed, and starts twisting from page one.
"The Advocate"
"The Snow Garden" offers finely nuanced character studies as its pages whiz by to its chilling conclusion.
"The Advocate"
Rice creates rich, enigmatic characters along with his plot reversals. Like a yarn by Stephen King crossed
with a tale by Edmund White.
"Booklist" An enthralling narrative....[Rice] expertly builds suspense.
"The London Times" Rice's novels are becoming as addictive as those of his mother, Anne.
"The Advocate" Rice creates rich, enigmatic characters along with his plot reversals. Like a yarn by Stephen King crossed with a tale by Edmund White.
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. A modern horror story that probes the terrible weight of the past on the present and the corrosive power of secrets.Atherton University, freshman year. Kathryn, Randall, and Jesse come from different worlds, but find themselves drawn together in unexpected ways. For each of them, college promises a bright future and a way to disconnect from a dark, haunted past. But as winter sets in, their secret histories threaten to disrupt the layers of deceit that protect their fragile new lives.One dark night a professor's wife is found drowned in an icy river, and rumors of murder threaten the safe haven of Atherton. Within days, Randall's illicit affair with the professor is about to be revealed in the local press. Then, an old mystery emerges from the shadows--the discovery of a co-ed's corpse in a frozen creek twenty years before makes these accidents of the past and the present look a little too closely connected. Gradually, the three friends find themselves snared in a web of lies, a web spun long before their days at Atherton. Snowbound on the university campus, they are unwitting captives of a malevolent force that drives them inexorably toward the snow garden of the title--a place of nightmares that is all too real, and all too near. Seller Inventory # 00104875553
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Hardback. Condition: Fair. A modern horror story that probes the terrible weight of the past on the present and the corrosive power of secrets.Atherton University, freshman year. Kathryn, Randall, and Jesse come from different worlds, but find themselves drawn together in unexpected ways. For each of them, college promises a bright future and a way to disconnect from a dark, haunted past. But as winter sets in, their secret histories threaten to disrupt the layers of deceit that protect their fragile new lives.One dark night a professor's wife is found drowned in an icy river, and rumors of murder threaten the safe haven of Atherton. Within days, Randall's illicit affair with the professor is about to be revealed in the local press. Then, an old mystery emerges from the shadows--the discovery of a co-ed's corpse in a frozen creek twenty years before makes these accidents of the past and the present look a little too closely connected. Gradually, the three friends find themselves snared in a web of lies, a web spun long before their days at Atherton. Snowbound on the university campus, they are unwitting captives of a malevolent force that drives them inexorably toward the snow garden of the title--a place of nightmares that is all too real, and all too near. Seller Inventory # 00057908061
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Hardback. Condition: Good. A modern horror story that probes the terrible weight of the past on the present and the corrosive power of secrets.Atherton University, freshman year. Kathryn, Randall, and Jesse come from different worlds, but find themselves drawn together in unexpected ways. For each of them, college promises a bright future and a way to disconnect from a dark, haunted past. But as winter sets in, their secret histories threaten to disrupt the layers of deceit that protect their fragile new lives.One dark night a professor's wife is found drowned in an icy river, and rumors of murder threaten the safe haven of Atherton. Within days, Randall's illicit affair with the professor is about to be revealed in the local press. Then, an old mystery emerges from the shadows--the discovery of a co-ed's corpse in a frozen creek twenty years before makes these accidents of the past and the present look a little too closely connected. Gradually, the three friends find themselves snared in a web of lies, a web spun long before their days at Atherton. Snowbound on the university campus, they are unwitting captives of a malevolent force that drives them inexorably toward the snow garden of the title--a place of nightmares that is all too real, and all too near. Seller Inventory # 00106246246
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