false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166670084m/15100.jpg 15100 19 <p> Before the sweet delight of <i>Chocolat</i>, before the heady concoction that is <i>Blackberry Wine</i>, and before the tart pleasures of <i>Five Quarters of the Orange</i>, bestselling author Joanne Harris wrote <i>Sleep, Pale Sister</i> -- a gothic tourde-force that recalls the powerfully dark sensibility of her novel Holy Fools. </p> <p> Originally published in 1994 -- and never before available in the United States -- <i>Sleep, Pale Sister</i> is a hypnotically atmospheric story set in nineteenth century London. When puritanical artist Henry Chester sees delicate child beauty Effie, he makes her his favorite model and, before long, his bride. But Henry, volatile and repressed, is in love with an ideal. Passive, docile, and asexual, the woman he projects onto Effie is far from the woman she really is. And when Effie begins to discover the murderous depths of Henry's hypocrisy, her latent passion will rise to the surface. </p> <p> <i>Sleep, Pale Sister</i> combines the ethereal beauty of a Pre-Raphaelite painting with a chilling high gothic tale and is a testament to Harris's brimming cornucopia of talents. </p><P>This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more. 688574 1994 Sleep, Pale Sister (P.S.) total:402|5:45|4:110|3:131|2:83|1:33| 402 1257 625 77 3 0 false false Thu Dec 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 08:23:33 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 08:23:33 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Mon Jan 05 04:42:57 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 03:52:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false true Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Apr 06 07:21:04 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 07:21:04 -0700 2009 ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Dec 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 11:04:38 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 11:07:16 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false true Mon Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 14 04:03:42 -0800 2008 Mon Sep 07 20:50:59 -0700 2009
The story itself was pretty cool, though - I c...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jul 28 04:48:17 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 12 06:43:39 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 28 04:48:17 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 18:22:23 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 09:25:33 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 20:17:20 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 13:58:03 -0700 2009 Joanne Harris used tarot cards as section headings in her book. I was fortunate to read the bulk of this book on a plane where I wasn't constantly interrupted by life. It helped me to understand the story a bit better.

This is another one o...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Jan 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 14:07:13 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 14:11:23 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 16 15:20:06 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 17 09:58:24 -0700 2008 But as soon as I started reading I was completely absorbed. The writing was great, her ability to describe things that you felt just as much as...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat May 16 09:33:49 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 09:35:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed May 27 04:28:58 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 04:30:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 17:13:38 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 18:20:36 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 16:14:49 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 16:45:05 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Feb 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 10:26:31 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 12:15:01 -0800 2009 loved it early, but it started losing me a bit after Marta entered the action. The blurb on the cover calls this "a hauntingly evocative laudanum-dream of a novel." I really couldn't agree more. This whacked-outness was working ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Dec 06 10:20:33 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 10:21:39 -0800 2008
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