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Ghost
- Author
- Alan Lightman
- Narrator
- Christopher Price
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 5 September 2017
- Run Time
- 7 hours 43 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
David is a modest man who works in a bank, lives in a rooming house, enjoys books and quiet walks by the lake. Three months after unexpectedly being fired from his job, he takes a temporary position at a mortuary. And there, sitting alone in the “slumber room” one late afternoon, he sees something that he cannot comprehend, something that no science can explain, something that will force him to question everything he believes in, including himself. After his metaphysical experience, all his relationships change—with his estranged wife, his girlfriend, his mother—and he grudgingly finds himself at the center of a bitter public controversy over the existence of the supernatural.
Critics Review
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“Satirical and compassionate, Lightman's brilliantly orchestrated and gripping tale dramatizes our marshaling of fear, fantasy, and faith as we confront the unknown and the inevitable. At base, all we can truly trust, Lightman suggests, is wonder and kindness.”
Booklist (starred review)
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“Ghost is subtly and delicately narrated, a prolonged and unwavering look at a serious, controversial subject.”
Joyce Carol Oates
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“A fascinating novel, splendidly framed and elegantly told. I'm moved by the characters and by the narrator's insights into the nature of reality. I read Ghost with relish.”
Ha Jin, author of War Trash
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“This is an important novel, and it deserves a lot of attention. I absorbed it as an allegory of the birth of superstition and a trip into the scary zone between the palpable and supernatural taken even by the educated twenty-first-century mind.”
Edward O. Wilson, author of Consilience
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Details
- Author
- Alan Lightman
- Narrator
- Christopher Price
- Duration
- 7 hours 43 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 September 2017
- ISBN
- 9781538504468
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary, Horror and supernatural fiction
Synopsis
David is a modest man who works in a bank, lives in a rooming house, enjoys books and quiet walks by the lake. Three months after unexpectedly being fired from his job, he takes a temporary position at a mortuary. And there, sitting alone in the “slumber room” one late afternoon, he sees something that he cannot comprehend, something that no science can explain, something that will force him to question everything he believes in, including himself. After his metaphysical experience, all his relationships change—with his estranged wife, his girlfriend, his mother—and he grudgingly finds himself at the center of a bitter public controversy over the existence of the supernatural.
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