SNOW GARDEN
Language: English
Published by Hyperion (2001), New York, NY, 2001
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
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- Title
- SNOW GARDEN
- Author
- Rice, Christopher
- Publisher
- Hyperion (2001), New York, NY
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- VG/VG
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Cloth/Boards w/DJ
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0786868139
- ISBN 13
- 9780786868131
- Illustrator
- Not Illustrated
- Edition
- First Edition.
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Review
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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