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From the bestselling author of The Egyptologist and Prague comes an even more accomplished and entirely surprising new novel. Angelica is a spellbinding Victorian ghost story, an intriguing literary and psychological puzzle, and a meditation on marriage, childhood, memory, and fear. The novel opens in London, in the 1880s, with the Barton household on the brink of collapse. Mother, father, and daughter provoke one another, consciously and unconsciously, and a horrifying crisis is triggered. As the family’s tragedy is told several times from different perspectives, events are recast and sympathies shift. In the dark of night, a chilling sexual spectre is making its way through the house, hovering over the sleeping girl and terrorizing her fragile mother. Are these visions real, or is there something more sinister, and more human, to fear? A spiritualist is summoned to cleanse the place of its terrors, but with her arrival the complexities of motive and desire only multiply. The mother’s failing health and the father’s many secrets fuel the growing conflicts, while the daughter flirts dangerously with truth and fantasy. While Angelica is reminiscent of such classic horror tales as The Turn of the Screw and The Haunting of Hill House, it is also a thoroughly modern exploration of identity, reality, and love. Set at the dawn of psychoanalysis and the peak of spiritualism’s acceptance, Angelica is also an evocative historical novel that explores the timeless human hunger for certainty. “Angelica, Arthur Phillip's spellbinding third book, cements this young novelist's reputation as one of the best writers in America, a storyteller who combines Nabokovian wit and subtlety with a narrative urgency that rivals Stephen King" –Washington Post

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Aaaahh ! Je suis encore toute pantelante quand je repense à ce roman achevé cette nuit seulement. Le résumé est excellent, il en dit juste assez mais ne dévoile rien, tout en restant honnête. Les amateurs du Tour d'écrou d'Henry James ne pourront...more...]]> 1 0 false false Thu Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 10 11:11:32 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 14 08:59:22 -0800 2008 Prague an...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 23 12:45:17 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 23 12:46:19 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Feb 12 09:35:48 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 12 09:35:48 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 29 20:25:29 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 21 17:13:39 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun May 06 21:54:03 -0700 2007 Wed May 16 14:28:23 -0700 2007 Angelica, Phillips' 3rd book is chilling and disturbing. A novel in four parts, each part refracts events that occurred in the Barton household in London of the 1890s.

The initial tone is high gothic, shifting as the perspective moves to each member of the household. From wife to dutiful...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 01:37:14 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 18 12:27:54 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jan 05 11:44:12 -0800 2008 Fri Aug 08 12:48:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=256397