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Original Title:	Sleep, Pale Sister (P.S.)
ISBN:	0060787112 (ISBN13: 9780060787110)
Edition Language:	English

Sleep, Pale Sister

Joanne Harris

Paperback | Pages: 396 pages

Rating: 3.28 | 3601 Users | 290 Reviews

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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

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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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Bought this book because the title sounded intriguing, and there was a promise of some of the story being set in a brothel. The beginning was really good, but then it became more and more predictable, then mystical in a very cheap way, and then simply boring. At one point I started to wonder if and how anything was going to happen, because the story seemed to be so close to the end, and there were still over 100 pages remaining.It tried very hard to be a VERY Gothic novel (the word "Gothic" was

I have read some weird stories in my time and this is up there with the rest. I couldn't quite figure out whether the author was deliberating undermining the 'gothic' genre or parodying it. The narrative is over the top at times and is quite an acerbic comment on the whole pre Raphaelites movement and its obsession with ale (and dying) women. The sexual themes were equally disturbing and are possibly a comment on the Victorian attitude to all matters sexual.The biggest issue is that I couldn't

Hmmm. I struggled with this a bit because I generally adore Joanne Harris. This is her "lost" second novel, and while it is certainly an improvement on her first novel, the dire " The Evil Seed", it doesn't quite live up to her later work. It is a bit of a grim tale. Painter Henry Chester becomes obsessed with his child-model and marries her as soon as she comes of each. Once wed he finds she doesnt live up to his ideals and the couple quickly grow to despise each other. Throw in an affair or

Have almost finished this book and it was the first book I read from this author. I found it to be a novel which draws you in completely, submerges you into its dreamlike and sometimes murky depths. It possesses a guiltridden, almost suffocating atmosphere interwoven with nightmarish sequences evoked by laudanum- and chloral hydrate abuse. The main male character reminded me very strongly of my childhood home (the guiltridden, suffocating part) and more especially of my misogynous father -

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

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