Madeleine's Ghost (signed first edition)

Girardi, Robert

ISBN 10: 0385314825 / ISBN 13: 9780385314824

Published by Delacorte Press, 1995

About this Item

First edition, first printing with full number line. Signed by Giraldi on title page. A fine copy in a fine mylar protected DJ. See my photos (more available upon request). This book is in my possession and will ship in a securely packed cardboard box. #82. Seller Inventory # 004532

Bibliographic Details

Title: Madeleine's Ghost (signed first edition)

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Ned Conti is a young historian struggling to piece together the miraculous past of a Brooklyn nun for a tiny stipend, while, at night, he grapples with the paranormal phenomena that have recently seized his rent-controlled apartment: furniture set askew, strange light haunting the bedroom, rocks appearing mysteriously in midair to pummel the floor. His only refuge is the F train and its connection to long Manhattan nights in East Village bars that he visits with his forlorn and eccentric friends.
As the summer grows hotter and his apartment more threatening, a baffled but tolerant Ned sets out to uncover the secret behind the angry spirit and, in so doing, is drawn irretrievably into a world of desire and fate ... where all around him lingers the dark dream of New Orleans, a place of magical disaster. Ten years before, he fled the Crescent City, never to return, when Antoinette, his true love, ended their brief but urgent affair. Now he's going back, returning to the past that has haunted him for a decade.

About the Author:

Robert Girardi was educated at Catholic schools in Europe and at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He holds an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and was a recipient of a James Michener Fellowship in 1989. He lives in Washington, D.C. This is his first novel.