Quietus - Softcover

Schilling, Vivian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1640080449 ISBN 13: 9781640080447

Publisher: Bookworks Inc, 2018

Synopsis

On a stormy winter night, a small plane bound for Boston goes down in the treacherous White Mountains of New Hampshire. Through a haze of morphine, Kylie O’Rourke awakens in the hospital to confused and harrowing memories of the crash. Though trapped within the wreckage with her husband, she recalls wandering the icy mountainside and speaking with the other passengers, including one who had died on impact. As the bizarre aftermath becomes sharper in her mind, it appears more ominous, along with the unshakable feeling that her survival somehow defied fate.

Reassured by her doctor that the disturbing memories had been caused by her sedation, Kylie returns to her life in Boston, but the aftermath of the tragedy proves unbearable. As her husband slips away from her into his own world of survivor’s guilt and deceit, Kylie is seized by a growing paranoia that someone is stalking her every move. In her nightmares, the predator is a specter crossing over from the mountaintop to reclaim her. Then a sudden and freakish tragedy sends Kylie's world toppling. While those around her fear she is losing her mind, she finds herself caught up in a chain of events she cannot escape.

In this riveting novel, Schilling delivers a psychological thriller that leads the reader on a collision course, where every breath, every step can carry the greatest of consequences. She paints bold and unforgettable characters, while resurrecting disturbing and powerful apocrypha that had been all but buried under contemporary religious doctrine. With spellbinding intrigue, Quietus takes the reader to the brink of reason, to the edge where spiritual and physical meet, building with frenetic momentum to its shocking and haunting climax.

About this title

About the Author:

Vivian Schilling is a filmmaker as well as a novelist, her previous works garnering the Saturn Award and the Golden Scroll Award for Outstanding Achievement in Literature. She divides her time between Los Angeles and the Ozark Mountains, where she often retreats to her cabin in the wilderness to write.

From the Inside Flap:

“Vivian Schilling’s Quietus is a great gothic raven perched somewhere between Anne Rice and Iris Murdoch. It’s a spooky, sweeping book of death, dreams and psychosexual intrigue. Schilling herself—in her deft melding of mythic animus and modern anxiety—seems like the bastard daughter of Carl Jung and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. I loved it.”—James Ireland Baker, Time Out New York "Powerful...an enlightening and thought-provoking look at what lies beyond our mortal lives." —Arizona Daily Sun “A deftly-written and highly recommended saga about unraveling the defenses of the human mind one by one...Haunting to the very end.” —Midwest Book Review “Well told and highly engaging...devilishly clever.”—Book Reporter “An intelligent and gothic masterpiece.” —West Coast Literary Review “A spooky, sweeping book of death, dreams and psychosexual intrigue. Schilling herself—in her deft melding of mythic animus and modern anxiety—seems like the bastard daughter of Carl Jung and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. I loved it.” —James Ireland Baker, Time Out New York “Rich and intelligent ... well written.” —The Women’s Connection

About this edition

• Publisher: Bookworks Inc
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1640080449
• ISBN 13: 9781640080447
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 594