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| Title | : | Sleep, Pale Sister |
| Author | : | Joanne Harris |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 396 pages |
| Published | : | August 30th 2005 by William Morrow Paperbacks (first published 1994) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Gothic. Horror |
Joanne Harris
Paperback | Pages: 396 pages Rating: 3.28 | 3601 Users | 290 Reviews
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Before the sweet delight of Chocolat, before the heady concoction that is Blackberry Wine, and before the tart pleasures of Five Quarters of the Orange, bestselling author Joanne Harris wrote Sleep, Pale Sister -- a gothic tourde-force that recalls the powerfully dark sensibility of her novel Holy Fools. Originally published in 1994 -- and never before available in the United States -- Sleep, Pale Sister is a hypnotically atmospheric story set in nineteenth century London. When puritanical artist Henry Chester sees delicate child beauty Effie, he makes her his favorite model and, before long, his bride. But Henry, volatile and repressed, is in love with an ideal. Passive, docile, and asexual, the woman he projects onto Effie is far from the woman she really is. And when Effie begins to discover the murderous depths of Henry's hypocrisy, her latent passion will rise to the surface. Sleep, Pale Sister combines the ethereal beauty of a Pre-Raphaelite painting with a chilling high gothic tale and is a testament to Harris's brimming cornucopia of talents. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
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| Original Title: | Sleep, Pale Sister (P.S.) |
| ISBN: | 0060787112 (ISBN13: 9780060787110) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.28 From 3601 Users | 290 ReviewsCriticism Containing Books Sleep, Pale Sister
I just finished reading two other Joanne Harris books, so I decided to read this one. To be brutally honest, the story was really bizarre and I'm not entirely sure I understand what happened. What's the book about? Well, just take a middle aged artist who's also a pedophile, his slightly creepy, very thin, very young, drug addict wife, a brothel owner, one of its' patrons and a girl that died twenty years ago, add in a little witchcraft and a death scene befitting Romeo and Juliet and there youJoanne Harris' second novel probably could have done with more editing before it was re-released, it's true. At first glance it's quite different to her other writing, but slowly you can see themes in it that come up over and over again in her writing. Slowly it becomes more and more creepy and mystical and strange, from something that was more like realism. Creepy both in the supernatural sense and in the creepy pervert sense, really.The writing is pretty compelling, just like her other
From what I've read of other reviews, every one dislikes this book. I have the opposite opinion. I love this book. I love the darkness of it and the intregue. There is that taste of the Victorian morbid love of death and disception. I love that time period in the art and the clothing, so this book was right up my alley, literally. True that this book is not like her others which are more full of life, love, and intertwined history with her other books of fiction. This one contains more of a
'Sleep, Pale Sister' is one of Joanne Harris's earliest novels and due to popular demand was re~released and when you read it, you will find out why. Sleep, Pale Sister tells the story of Effie and the men in her life who set out to hurt in the cruelest manner possible. Effie finds a way to have her revenge in this dark novel. The chapters are told from the perspective of each separate characters which makes the story more interesting, you find out more about their pasts, the people they are. A
This gothic thriller kept me turning the pages. In Victorian England, a wealthy gentleman and moderately talented artist spots a little girl and makes her the model for a series of sentimental paintings, helping support her family in the process. Eventually he marries her, but he sees her more as a symbol of childlike purity than a warm blooded woman, and as a man of his times, wants to "protect" this weak, fragile vessel from harm (even taking a walk in the garden is considered too risky if he
I loved this book. Joanne Harris at her best. As a gothic novel set in 19th Century Britain it is a million miles away from Chocolat and the Lollipop Shoes, yet it reminded me of these books because of the depth of the characters. Each damaged character is caught up in his or her own selfish vision of the future but I wanted to know what happened to each of them and raced through this book in a day. If I have any criticism it is that the ending is a little unsatisfactory, but maybe that is just
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