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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE - A spellbinding Victorian ghost story, an intriguing literary and psychological puzzle, and a meditation on marriage, childhood, memory, and fear.

"One of the best writers in America, a storyteller who combines Nabokovian wit and subtlety with a narrative urgency that rivals Stephen King."--The Washington Post

From the bestselling author of The Egyptologist and Prague comes an even more accomplished and entirely surprising new novel. Angelica is a spellbinding Victorian ghost story, an intriguing literary and psychological puzzle, and a meditation on marriage, childhood, memory, and fear.

The novel opens in London, in the 1880s, with the Barton household on the brink of collapse. Mother, father, and daughter provoke one another, consciously and unconsciously, and a horrifying crisis is triggered. As the family's tragedy is told several times from different perspectives, events are recast and sympathies shift.
In the dark of night, a chilling sexual spectre is making its way through the house, hovering over the sleeping girl and terrorizing her fragile mother. Are these visions real, or is there something more sinister, and more human, to fear? A spiritualist is summoned to cleanse the place of its terrors, but with her arrival the complexities of motive and desire only multiply. The mother's failing health and the father's many secrets fuel the growing conflicts, while the daughter flirts dangerously with truth and fantasy.

While Angelica is reminiscent of such classic horror tales as The Turn of the Screw and The Haunting of Hill House, it is also a thoroughly modern exploration of identity, reality, and love. Set at the dawn of psychoanalysis and the peak of spiritualism's acceptance, Angelica is also an evocative historical novel that explores the timeless human hunger for certainty.

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Arthur Phillips is the bestselling author of The Egyptologist and Prague, which was a New York Times Notable Book and winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. He lives in New York with his wife and two sons.

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  • PublisherCHERCHE MIDI
  • Publication date2009
  • ISBN 10 2749111803
  • ISBN 13 9782749111803
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages422
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: NEUF. " Vous n'avez encore jamais lu un tel roman ! " Stephen King Londres, 1880. La maison Barton est bord de la crise. Depuis que le père, Joseph, biologiste de renom, a décidé que sa fille de 4 ans, Angelica, devait désormais quitter la chambre de ses parents pour aller dormir seule dans la sienne, de mystérieux événements se produisent. Constance, la mère d'Angelica, qu'un retour à l'intimité conjugale ne réjouit guère, sent une menace planer sur sa fille. Au grand dam de Joseph, qui ne veut rien entendre. Quand Constance fait appel à Annie Montague, une ancienne actrice, pour veiller sur Angelica, le quatuor est en place pour un drame dont il serait criminel de dévoiler l'argument. Les quatre protagonistes relatent chacun leur tour les événements qui suivent, quatre versions qui parfois s'accordent, parfois se contredisent, chacune jetant une lumière nouvelle, mais aussi une part d'ombre, sur les personnages, leurs peurs, leurs désirs et leurs secrets. Avec Angelica, Arthur Phillips nous offre une brillante relecture du roman victorien. Le lecteur, mi-enquêteur, mi-psychanalyste, participe activement à ce récit labyrinthique, derrière les lignes duquel il doit essayer de percevoir la vérité avant le coup de théâtre final, tous les indices disséminés dans le livre apparaissant alors en pleine lumière. Un coup de maître. - Nombre de page(s) : 1 vol. (422 p.) - Poids : 0g - Langue : fre - Genre : Policier / Thriller grand format NéO. Seller Inventory # N9782749111803

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