Lost
By: by Gregory Maguire.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Regan Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
Description: In this third novel by the acclaimed bestselling author of "Wicked" and "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister", famed children's book author Winifred Rudge travels to London to research a book about a woman who is being haunted by Jack the Ripper. 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 home. Is the spirit Winnie's great-great-grandfather, 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? Winnie begins to investigate and finds herself the unwilling audience for a drama of specters and shades -- some from her family's peculiar history and some from her own unvanquished past. In the spirit of A.S. Byatt's Possession, with dark echoing overtones of A Christmas Carol, Lost presents a rich fictional world that will enrapture its readers.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Stave One:; title: Somebody Else in the Vehicle; title: 1; title: Stave Two:; title: At the Flat in Weatherall Walk; title: 37; title: Stave Three:; title: From the Chimney Inside the Chimney; title: 117; title: Stave Four:; title: As Dante in the Purgatorio; title: 191; title: Stave Five:; title: For the Time Being; title: 303; title: Acknowledgments; title: 337.