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Ghostwriter
Ghostwriter: Amazement Park Adventure
The kids on the Ghostwriter team solve a mystery at Coney Island with the help of their invisible partner, Ghostwriter, and the reader.
66 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1994
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Richie Chevat
32 books5 followersI've been a writer since the age of nine, around the same time I became a compulsive reader. Some ideas appear in the shape of prose, others as plays, musicals, screenplays, songs or even blog posts. But most of the time I'm just trying to write something I'd like to read or see.
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October 26, 2024
Just to be clear everything GR says about this book is wrong, this was never called the Amazement Park Adventure nor is it about kids solving a mystery at Cooney Island. The details regarding its publisher etc. is correct.
This is a superb short story by the Irish writer/poet Padraig Rooney and like all his prose, at least what I have read, is enormously literary and in the case of 'Ghostwriter' is full of allusions to other works literature, art and places in Germany, France and Switzerland and their history and personalities. This piece also has clear autobiographical echoes. What is it about? a private investigator searching for a missing artist? a lover seeking a lost love? an examination of time and the repetitions of history in places? Yes, no, maybe, does it matter? Not really as far as I am concerned. This little book of barely 20 pages of prose and four lovely illustrations is a joy to read. It is also a reproof to all those who boasted of the opportunities electronic publishing would bring? I don't see anyone publishing works like this or the others Oasis books published back in the 1980s (don't bother trying to search for Oasis Books online they gone and as far as I can see have left no online record).
Rooney is brilliant writer and highly recommend seeking him out.
This is a superb short story by the Irish writer/poet Padraig Rooney and like all his prose, at least what I have read, is enormously literary and in the case of 'Ghostwriter' is full of allusions to other works literature, art and places in Germany, France and Switzerland and their history and personalities. This piece also has clear autobiographical echoes. What is it about? a private investigator searching for a missing artist? a lover seeking a lost love? an examination of time and the repetitions of history in places? Yes, no, maybe, does it matter? Not really as far as I am concerned. This little book of barely 20 pages of prose and four lovely illustrations is a joy to read. It is also a reproof to all those who boasted of the opportunities electronic publishing would bring? I don't see anyone publishing works like this or the others Oasis books published back in the 1980s (don't bother trying to search for Oasis Books online they gone and as far as I can see have left no online record).
Rooney is brilliant writer and highly recommend seeking him out.
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