The Little Stranger
466 str.
7 godz. 46 min.
- Kategoria:
- literatura piękna
- Wydawnictwo:
- Riverhead Books
- Data wydania:
- 2009-04-30
- Data 1. wydania:
- 2009-04-30
- Liczba stron:
- 466
- Czas czytania
- 7 godz. 46 min.
- Język:
- angielski
- ISBN:
- 1594488800
- Tagi:
- Booker Prize Booker Shortlist gothic duchy historyczna
- Inne
The Little Stranger follows the strange adventures of Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. One dusty postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline-its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, the clock in its stable yard permanently fixed at twenty to nine. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life? Little does Dr. Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story is about to become entwined with his
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