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City of Ghosts
by Johanna Stoberock
ISBN: 0393051722
ISBN-13: 9780393051728
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
The affectionate but rivalrous friendship between Anna and Isabel becomes fraught with tension when Isabel marries Anna's boyfriend and goes to live with him in Kathmandu, where he leads wilderness treks. A confrontation in the course of one of these expeditions is the climax of this novel, which is set vividly in Isabel's adopted country of Nepal.
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"The novel is something short of unpredictable, and Stoberock's descriptions of local nature and culture, though vivid and elegant, feel unintegrated. But she takes a genuine risk in permitting her heroine to be, by turns, unlikable, hysterical, and wrong; she dares to place complex and not entirely sympathetic characters in tricky, morally ambiguous situations without attempting to redeem them or suggesting that they require redemption...." -- Darcy Cosper
-- Bookforum
"Stoberock writes extremely well; her descriptions of Nepal are as elegantly crafted as her psychological portraits....There's remarkably little passion in this drama involving sexual betrayal and a lifelong friendship that's also a covert struggle for power between two women. For all of its author's evident talent, CITY OF GHOSTS is...overly schematic and as wary as the people it depicts of direct engagement with life's messy ambiguities." -- Wendy Smith
-- Washington Post Book World
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Published date: 2003
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 6 x 8.75 inches
Weight: 0.47 pounds
Pages: 256
Publisher's Notes
Having married her best friend's lover, Isabel Grady follows her new husband to the inhospitable mountains of Nepal, where she sets up home in a ruined palace in spite of her husband's frequent absence, only to find her precarious new life threatened by the imminent visit of her best friend.
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New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2003. AR4 - Atmospheric and passionate, an exploration of obsession, friendship, and grief, City of Ghosts charts Isabel's journey through the blindness of new love to self-awareness and explores the disorientation that springs from giving oneself too fully to another person.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Bookmarc's (United States)
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W. W. Norton & Company, 2003-03. Hardcover. New. Hardcover with dust jacket, Copr. 2003, First Printing. Vividly imagined, and passionate, this novel is an exploration of obsession, friendship, and grief; a woman's journey through the blindness of new love to self-awareness and explores the disorientation that springs from giving oneself too fully to another person. (Excerpt from book description.) Book is brand new; all pages are pristine, dust jacket is glossy. ( more information) Offered by Home Business Publications (United States)
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