| Her Fearful Symmetry Contributor(s): Niffenegger, Audrey (Author) |
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ISBN: 1439165394 ISBN-13: 9781439165393 Publisher: Scribner Book Company
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: September 2009 Annotation: From the bestselling author of "The Time Traveler's Wife," comes a spectacularly compelling second novel set in and around Highgate Cemetery in London. |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Ghost - Fiction | Gothic |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2009018771 |
| Lexile Measure: 690(Not Available) |
| Physical Information: 1.29" H x 6.3" W x 9.22" L (1.56 lbs) 416 pages |
| Features: Dust Cover, Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product |
| Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/01/2009 pg. 59 Publishers Weekly 07/27/2009 pg. 46 Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2009 Booklist 09/01/2009 pg. 6 Time 09/21/2009 pg. 85 New Yorker (The) 09/21/2009 pg. 95 Entertainment Weekly 10/02/2009 pg. 66 Time 10/05/2009 pg. 69 People Weekly 10/12/2009 pg. 54 Romantic Times 11/01/2009 pg. 58 - Excellent Entertainment Weekly 10/30/2009 pg. 61 New Yorker (The) 12/14/2009 pg. 85 Booklist Ed Choice Adu Bk YA's 01/01/2010 pg. 10 Library Journal Annex 08/25/2009 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From the author of the #1 bestselling The Time Traveler's Wife, a spectacularly compelling novel--set in and near Highgate Cemetery in London, about the love between twins, men and women, ghosts and the living. Julia and Valentina Poole are twenty-year-old sisters with an intense attachment to each other. One morning the mailman delivers a thick envelope to their house in the suburbs of Chicago. Their English aunt Elspeth Noblin has died of cancer and left them her London apartment. There are two conditions for this inheritance: that they live in the flat for a year before they sell it and that their parents not enter it. Julia and Valentina are twins. So were the girls' aunt Elspeth and their mother, Edie. The girls move to Elspeth's flat, which borders the vast Highgate Cemetery, where Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Stella Gibbons, and other luminaries are buried. Julia and Valentina become involved with their living neighbors: Martin, a composer of crossword puzzles who suffers from crippling OCD, and Robert, Elspeth's elusive lover, a scholar of the cemetery. They also discover that much is still alive in Highgate, including--perhaps--their aunt. |
Contributor Bio(s): Niffenegger, Audrey: - Audrey Niffenegger is a visual artist and a guide at Highgate Cemetery. In addition to the bestselling novels The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry, she is the author of three illustrated novels, The Three Incestuous Sisters, The Adventuress, and The Night Bookmobile, and the editor of Ghostly. She lives in Chicago. |
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