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Lost (Gregory Maguire)
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Lost (Gregory Maguire)
Author: Ally
Tuesday, 23 October 2001 - 05:33 pm |        | Anyone familiar with Maguire knows that he puts an interesting spin on traditional stories such as Wicked, the witch's side the Wizard tale or Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, a view of Cinderella from the other side. His latest Lost will apparently feature Jack the Ripper.
From the dust jacket:
"Winifred Rudge, a bemused writer struggling to get beyond the runaway success of her mass-market astrology book, travels to London to jump-start her new novel about a woman who is being haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper. Upon her arrival, she finds that her stepcousin and old friend John Comestor has disappeared, and a ghostly presence seems to have taken over his apartment in the nineteenth-century rowhouse once owned by Winnie's great-great-grandfather. Is it the spirit of this ancestor, who, family legend claims, was Charles Dickens's childhood inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge? Could it be the ghostly remains of Jack the Ripper? Or a phantasm derived from a more arcane and insidious origin?"
Apparently the main character will investigate a possible Ripper victim in America. |
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