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Title: A Face at the Window by Dennis McFarland ISBN: 0-7679-0130-4 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.82 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Spine-Tingling Suspense Story
Comment: This book had me on the edge my seat until the very last page, where I still sat begging for more. It is not the typical ghost story, because it combines the story of the ghosts extrodanarily well with the real main character'severyday life. Dennis McFarland did a fantastic job of developing his characters and holding his reader's suspense. This is one of the best books I have read in a long time, and I strongly recommend it to fiction readers of all kinds
Rating: 5
Summary: A chilling effect and a unique plot
Comment: I found myself really getting to know the characters and I loved the little boy in the story. I remember staying up late immersed in a part of the book where the main character has another encounter with the ghost world. During this part of the book, he is very out of touch with reality, and after I finished reading it I realized I was in the same disoriented state. This book is very unique, because it is not your normal ghost story. It combines the life stories of people who lived many years ago with a person who lives in today's world. Even if you don't normally read ghost stories (I normally don't), you would probably not be able to put this book down! I definately wasn't able to.
Rating: 4
Summary: Not Your Average "Ghost Story"
Comment: I have to admit that "A Face at the Window" was not at all what I was expecting. I was prepared to read a "cookie cutter" ghost story. I had not read any reviews, having simply picked this book up at a library sale.
The main character Cookson Selway, an early-retired restauranteur and his wife Ellen, who is a fiction writer travel to England after their daughter goes away to boarding school. Note that this novel is written in what I call "Conversation Form", that is to say that it is written as if the central character, "Cook" is talking to the reader. Prior to leaving American, Cook has an unusual experience which reminds him of a somewhat "psychic" ability he had as a child. A self-described ex-addict [drugs, alcohol] Cook has not had these experiences for years, yet after this daughter leaves for school he has an incident and chalks it up to anxiety over the separation. When he and Ellen travel to England and settle in a very old flat, things begin to get very out of control for Cook. He begins to see and hear things that no one else can see. He strikes up an unusual friendship and bond with Paschal, the hotel's young porter and begins to distance himself from his wife. There are some very spooky appearances, which Cook seems to take in stride and embrace in an obsessive manner which creates a terrific strain on his marriage. There is quite a bit of soul-searching by the main character in this novel, therefore creating a story-within-a-story feel to the novel. A final tragedy finally breaks the obsession Cook has with "helping" the apparitions he encounters and the novel resolves from there. There is a bit of back-tracking in the beginning of the novel, which is truly important later in the story, and the conversational writing style takes a few pages to get used to but overall, this is a very interesting novel, not at tall typical of any ghost story I have ever read. It is much more and well worth reading.
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Title: The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons ISBN: 0061008737 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Revenant by Melanie Tem ISBN: 1585867578 Publisher: ereads.com Pub. Date: 12 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Five Mile House : A Novel by Karen Novak ISBN: 1582341591 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Pub. Date: 09 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Nazareth Hill by Ramsey Campbell ISBN: 0812539303 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Haunted: The Incredible True Story of a Canadian Family's Experience Living in a Haunted House by Dorah L. Williams ISBN: 1550023780 Publisher: Hounslow Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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