A Face at the Window
by Dennis McFarland
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"An irresistible tale that ventures into the ghostly realms of psychology, personality and intimacy" from the bestselling author of The Music Room (San Francisco Chronicle). When their daughter leaves for college, newly minted empty nesters Cookson and Ellen Selway decide to escape the eerie quiet of their home and take a trip to London. But not long after arriving, it becomes apparent that the Selways have traded one unsettling locale for another. Like Cookson, a recovering alcoholic and show more drug addict, the Hotel Willerton has a disturbing past. Fifty years ago, a young girl fell to her death from one of the hotel's windows, and her ghost is haunting Cookson, slowly drawing him back toward the darkness that once consumed him. As Cookson descends into a spiral of self-destruction, he is joined by two more apparitions, each reflecting the worst parts of himself and forcing him to confront the mistakes of his past that have tormented him for years. From the celebrated author of the Washington Post Best Book of the Year Nostalgia and the New York Times-bestselling The Music Room, this is "a gripping, stylish, consistently entertaining novel" that offers a literary spin on the traditional ghost story (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution). show lessTags
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I read 5 chapters. It was intriguing, but just not interesting enough to keep me in it. Weird stuff going on and probably there is a reason. I don't find myself caring to find out.
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Dennis McFarland was born in 1950 and received his B.A. from Brooklyn College. In 1981, he was awarded a Wallace Stegner fellowship. In addition to writing books, McFarland has taught creative writing at Stanford University and has written numerous contributions to such periodicals as Mademoiselle and The New Yorker. His novels are generally about show more families ravaged by alcoholism. They include "School for the Blind," "The Music Room," and "A Face at the Window." (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- One Monday morning about a year and a half ago, in late autumn, I woke with a vague awareness of a long dullish instrument of some kind, maybe the butt end of a medieval halberd, being alternately inserted and withdrawn at th... (show all)e small of my back.
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