The Birthing House - Softcover

Ransom, Christopher

 
9780312624156: The Birthing House
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0312624158 ISBN 13: 9780312624156
Verlag: Griffin, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

A chilling ghost story that is also a tale of exquisite psychological suspense, The Birthing House marks the debut of a writer whose first novel is a terrifying tour de force.

Conrad and Joanna Harrison, a young couple from Los Angeles, attempt to save their marriage by leaving the pressures of the city to start anew in a quiet, rural setting. They buy a Victorian mansion that once served as a haven for unwed mothers, called a birthing house. One day when Joanna is away, the previous owner visits Conrad to bequeath a vital piece of the house's historic heritage, a photo album that he claims "belongs to the house." Thumbing through the old, sepia-colored photographs of midwives and fearful, unhappily pregnant girls in their starched, nineteenth-century dresses, Conrad is suddenly chilled to the bone: staring back at him with a countenance of hatred and rage is the image of his own wife....

Thus begins a story of possession, sexual obsession, and, ultimately, murder, as a centuries-old crime is reenacted in the present, turning Conrad and Joanna's American dream into a relentless nightmare.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Christopher Ransom is a native of Boulder, Colorado, and has lived in New York and Los Angeles. He now resides with his wife and three rescued dogs in a 142-year-old former birthing house in Mineral Point, Wisconsin. He is the author of the novel The Birthing House.

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Verlag
Griffin
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0312624158
ISBN 13 
9780312624156
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
320
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Verantwortliche Person
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

Friedensallee 273
Hamburg
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Deutschland

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