Riddance (eBook)

Shelley Jackson (Autor)

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2018
Catapult (Verlag)
978-1-948226-00-4 (ISBN)

Infos

In Riddance; or, The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children, children with speech impediments attend a school in Massachusetts to learn how to channel the dead. Written in the form of transcripts, found documents, and archival material, the novel is a disquieting supernatural investigation into life after death, and marks the much-anticipated return of a brilliant writer.

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Finalist for the Believer Book Award for FictionNamed a Best Book of Fall by Vulture, New York Magazine, and more"e;A ravishing novel charged with the idea of the incommunicable."e; -The New YorkerEleven-year-old Jane Grandison, tormented by her stutter, sits in the back seat of a car, letter in hand inviting her to live and study at the Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children. Founded in 1890 by Headmistress Sybil Joines, the school-at first glance-is a sanctuary for children seeking to cure their speech impediments. Inspired by her haunted and tragic childhood, the Headmistress has other ideas.Pioneering the field of necrophysics, the Headmistress harnesses the "e;gift"e; she and her students possess. Through their stutters, together they have the ability to channel ghostly voices communicating from the land of the dead, a realm the Headmistress herself visits at will. Things change for the school and the Headmistress when a student disappears, attracting attention from parents and police alike.Set in the overlapping worlds of the living and the dead, Shelley Jackson's Riddance is an illuminated novel told through theoretical writings in necrophysics, the Headmistress's dispatches from the land of the dead, and Jane's evolving life as Joines's new stenographer and central figure in the Vocational School's mysterious present, as well as its future.

Autor

Shelley Jackson was born in the Philippines, raised in Berkeley, California, and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, her daughter, and a three-legged dog. She received a B.A. in art from Stanford University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Brown University. She is the author of the short story collection The Melancholy of Anatomy, the novel Half Life, the hypertext novel Patchwork Girl, several children’s books, and “Skin,” a story published in tattoos on the skin of more than 2,000 volunteers. She teaches in the graduate writing program at The New School.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.10.2018
• Mitarbeit: Designer: Zachary Thomas Dodson
• Zusatzinfo: Color and black and white images, illustrations, and graphs
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Horror
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Alice Hoffman • Boarding School • books set at boarding school • Christopher Sorrentino • Darcey Steinke • David Mitchell • Edward Carey • experimental format novel • George Saunders • Ghosts • Half Life • Illustrated novels • Jason Reynolds • Jonathan Lethem • Kelly Link • Lincoln in the Bardo • Long Way Down • Luc Sante • Lynne Tillman • Men and Apparitions • Mr. Splitfoot • patchwork girl • Riddance • Robert Coover • Samantha Hunt • Shelley Jackson • Shellie Jackson • Shelly Jackson • The Changeling • The Job of the Wasp • The Melancholy of Anatomy: Stories • The Rules of Magic • The Slade House • tom mccarthy • victor lavalle
• ISBN-10: 1-948226-00-6 / 1948226006
• ISBN-13: 978-1-948226-00-4 / 9781948226004