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Title: Pharos: A Ghost Story by Alice Thompson ISBN: 0-312-31810-3 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Two Pruned Thumbs Up
Comment: This story washed ashore to me and I coveted it like a new, old shell. Listen closely to where it's been and what it has to say, distant or whispering sailor's gibberish in your ear.
Set on an island off the coast of Scotland, characters that bob the white caps of this tale are Cameron, a middle-aged bachelor devouting his life to caring for the lighthouse and the safe passage of those at sea. Simon, the new assistant caretaker, finds Lucia in the water after a storm and brings her ashore. Charlotte arrives later. The sister of Cameron, she's there to care for the men and to be a stable witness, should one of them die in their work.
Lucia is a fairly sensible confused person and, I'd venture, the least wooden of the players in this work. That irony comes home to roost on the ledges of the lighthouse later on. When a crumbling crypt is the homiest joint on the island, don't expect a clambake anytime soon.
Holes in the raft: Cameron's complete walking of the mental health plank, seemingly overnight. Simon's face never really came to me, despite description, which seemed odd considering his "animist" talent. The female form on the cover fits Charlotte's physical description, not Lucia.
I read this book in the cold of the season and can't help but to wonder what kind of beach read it would make come sweat of Summer? Cold tequila against hot sand and the storm that contrast creates in the soul. --Laurel825
Rating: 5
Summary: Great ghost story
Comment: Twenty-seven miles off the coast of Scotland lies the island that is the home to the Jacob's Rock Lighthouse. Cameron is the principal keeper of the lighthouse and he has been alone on the island so long that he is eagerly awaiting the boat that is bringing his new assistant. When Simon arrives, the two men quickly fall into a routine, which is broken when Simon rescues a young woman who has washed up on the rocks.
When the woman regains consciousness, she has no memory of who she is or where she came from. The two men feed and clothe her and gradually she comes out of her apathetic state and takes notice of the world around her. She hears strange noises and constantly sees a young mulatto girl running around the island. Cameron insists she is imagining things and he keeps on telling her that until she is convinced that there is something evil on the island, something that Cameron is hiding from himself and her.
Readers gradually get the feeling that there is something not quite right about the people who are living on Jacob's Rock. The shipwrecked woman comes to believe that the Principal Keeper does not want her to leave but she doesn't know why. There is a mystery about him that she intends to solve but there are other forces at work on the island that intend to have their way and there is nothing the amnesiac can do to stop them. Thus the audience receives an exciting gothic-like paranormal thriller that entertains from the moment the woman arrives on the rock.
Harriet Klausner
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Title: Come Closer: A Novel by Sara Gran ISBN: 1569473285 Publisher: Soho Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Darkest Part of the Woods by Ramsey Campbell ISBN: 0765307669 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Journals of Eleanor Druse: My Investigation of the Kingdom Hospital Incident by Eleanor Druse ISBN: 1401301231 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Haunted: The Incredible True Story of a Canadian Family's Experience Living in a Haunted House by Dorah L. Williams ISBN: 1550023780 Publisher: Hounslow Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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Title: Lost Boy, Lost Girl by Peter Straub ISBN: 1400060923 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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