The Ghost In Love Tapa blanda - 2008

CARROLL, Jonathan: The Ghost In Love. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. ADVANCED READER'S COPY FIRST EDITION. Softcover, 311 pp. Subject: Novel / Fantasy / Ghosts. Book condition: Very Good. Corners bumped with slight wear to the extremities. Light toning to the pages. Still a very nice, decent copy. "The Ghost in Love is about what happens to us when we discover that we have become the masters of our own fate. No excuses, no outside forces of gods to blame – the responsibility is all our own. It's also about love, ghosts that happen to be gourmet cooks, talking dogs, and picnicking in the rain with yourself at twenty different ages." A literary feast of delight. ISBN: 0374917140

New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2008. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. ARC. New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reading Copy. Signed and dated 10/24/08 by author on title page. Welcome to the luminous and marvelously inventive world of THE GHOST IN LOVE. A man falls in the snow, hits his head on a stone curb, and dies. But something strange occurs: the man doesn't die, and the ghost that's been sent to take his soul to the afterlife is flabbergasted. Going immediately to its boss, the ghost asks, What should I do now? The boss says, We don't know how this happened, but we're working on it. In the meantime, we want you to stay with this man to help us figure out what's on. Unhappily, the ghost agrees. It is a ghost, not a nursemaid. But a funny thing happens--the ghost falls madly in love with the man's girlfriend--and things get naturally more complicated. Carroll is the author of twelve previous novels, including the acclaimed WHITE APPLES, THE LAND OF… Leer más