Grief Cottage: A Novel by Gail Godwin (English) Paperback Book

Description: Grief Cottage by Gail Godwin Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2017 (Top 10)Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books 2017The haunting tale of a desolate cottage, and the hair-thin junction between this life and the next, from bestselling National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin.After his mothers death, eleven-year-old Marcus is sent to live on a small South Carolina island with his great aunt, a reclusive painter with a haunted past. Aunt Charlotte, otherwise a woman of few words, points out a ruined cottage, telling Marcus she had visited it regularly after shed moved there thirty years ago because it matched the ruin of her own life. Eventually she was inspired to take up painting so she could capture its utter desolation.The islanders call it "Grief Cottage," because a boy and his parents disappeared from it during a hurricane fifty years before. Their bodies were never found and the cottage has stood empty ever since. During his lonely hours while Aunt Charlotte is in her studio painting and keeping her demons at bay, Marcus visits the cottage daily, building up his courage by coming ever closer, even after the ghost of the boy who died seems to reveal himself. Full of curiosity and open to the unfamiliar and uncanny given the recent upending of his life, he courts the ghost boy, never certain whether the ghost is friendly or follows some sinister agenda.Grief Cottage is the best sort of ghost story, but it is far more than that--an investigation of grief, remorse, and the memories that haunt us. The power and beauty of this artful novel wash over the reader like the waves on a South Carolina beach. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Gail Godwin is a three-time National Book Award finalist and the bestselling author of more than a dozen critically acclaimed books, including Publishing, a memoir, and the novels Flora, Father Melancholys Daughter, and Evensong. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts grants for both fiction and libretto writing, and the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Woodstock, New York. Review [Godwin] remains a forensically skillful examiner of her characters motives, thoughts and behavior. Grief Cottage revisits some of her favorite themes--fractured families, parentless children, the initial shock and long-term repercussions of death and disappearance, how the future can run off course in a flash--to make the very good point that it doesnt require a ghost to haunt a life . . . Deeply satisfying. * New York Times *Godwin may flirt with the magical, but she deals firmly with the realism of depression and loss. Its those psychological ghosts that Grief Cottage is really about. * Washington Post *Compelling . . . an ambiguous, beguiling tale in which the presence of the supernatural is entangled with--and perhaps precipitated by--characters who are undergoing an emotional crisis. * The Economist *Godwins riveting and wise story of the slow coalescence of trust and love between a stoic artist and a grieving boy . . . subtly and insightfully explores different forms of haunting and vulnerability, strength and survival . . . Word will spread quickly about Godwins tender and spellbinding supernatural novel. -- Starred Review * Booklist *Godwins forceful prose captivates with the quiet, renewing power of a persistent tide. -- Starred Review * Publishers Weekly, "Best Books of 2017" *An exquisite narrative . . . This grace-filled story probes aspects of life and death, isolation and family, and how great pain and loss can ultimately lead to unforeseen transcendence. -- Starred Review * Shelf Awareness *Marcus fascination with the ghostly presence of an adolescent boy, thought to have perished at Grief Cottage in a hurricane, allows Godwin to explore themes of loss, connection, and growth unfettered by the corporeal world. * Kirkus Reviews *Godwin, who has been nominated three times for the National Book Award and written some of the late-20th-centurys most affecting prose, is at age 80 nothing if not centered and engaged. . . . Grief Cottage concerns an orphan named Marcus and some ghosts, but its really about how each of us is haunted, even when we dont acknowledge it. * Lit Hub *Like Henry Jamess classic, The Turn of the Screw, Grief Cottage is less a paranormal thriller than an exploration of the psyches creative tactics to survive trauma . . . Godwin shows she is still at the top of her craft, using the fragile link between living and spirit to illuminate a young mans coming of age in this keenly observed, powerful novel. * BookPage *Grief Cottage is an absorbing and wise novel. Gail Godwin convincingly expands the meanings of haunting well beyond the appearance of the ghost-boy who triggers Marcus Harshaws uncanny--and canny--journey of self-discovery. * Washington Independent Review of Books *A compelling story of family and loss. Godwins vivid prose, well-wrought characters and captivating plot will keep readers turning pages to the end. * Charleston Post & Courrier *Godwin again works her magic in a novel at once uplifting and somber. An author whose skills have entranced readers for 45 years, Godwin will turn 80 this month. But do not fret over a mere number, one which has in no way diminished her power to appeal to the intellectual and emotional sides of human existence . . . Grief Cottage melds literary and popular fiction, glows with Godwins heart and humanity and reflects the wisdom of her years. * Richmond Times-Dispatch *[Godwin] knows how to make the atmosphere tense and make your skin tingle. At 80, the author, who grew up in Asheville and graduated from UNC, is returning to long-favorite themes: longings and loss, motherless children and the repercussions of death . . . Grief Cottage is not the fluffy stuff of many a summer beach read, but its well worth a place in your beach bag this summer. * Raleigh News & Observer *Gail Godwin peers into the souls of her characters to find the healing nature of kindness, tolerance and love. * Minneapolis Star Tribune *Brilliant . . . Godwins perfectly flowing prose reaches that elusive place where reality and fiction collide seamlessly. Her ability to infuse characters and settings with heartbreaking depth makes this novel unforgettable. * Woodbury *Godwin, a three-time National Book Award finalist, mixes horror and mystery tropes with literary musings on growing up and growing old. The result is a sort of supernatural bildungsroman, less a traditional ghost story and more a cautionary tale about the specter of impermanence . . . Full of curiosity and spectacle . . . the novel succeeds in questioning the uncanny and finding life even in a ghost story. * Atlanta Journal Constitution *A stately meditation on loss and longing. * Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, "Summer Reads" *Godwin handles the supernatural deftly. Its up to the reader whether Marcus actually sees something or is letting his imagination run riot . . . Godwins descriptions of beach life, from the quality of light over the water to a nest of sea turtles about to hatch, will make you want to drop what youre doing and head for the ocean immediately. * Star News (Wilmington, NC) *Whether the ghost is real or the creation of a distressed psyche becomes irrelevant. As in Godwins favorite story, Henry James The Turn of the Screw, it could go either way, and despite the heat of the South Carolina summer, there is a peculiar chill in the air. * Alabama Public Radio *Can the needs of the living and dead sometimes merge? Eleven-year-old Marcuss desire to believe so leads him, and us, on a harrowing and unforgettable journey toward an answer. Grief Cottage further confirms that Gail Godwin is one of our countrys very finest novelists. -- Ron Rash, author of THE RISEN and ABOVE THE WATERFALLNo one writes about the psychological weight of the human condition like Gail Godwin. In Grief Cottage Godwin is able to conjure on the page what few of us can conjure in our minds: the implications of loss and time and what it means to be haunted by both. -- Wiley Cash, New York Times bestselling author of THIS DARK ROAD TO MERCY and A LAND MORE KIND THAN HOME Promotional The haunting tale of a desolate cottage, and the hair-thin junction between this life and the next, from bestselling National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin. Review Quote "Marcus fascination with the ghostly presence of an adolescent boy, thought to have perished at Grief Cottage in a hurricane, allows Godwin to explore themes of loss, connection, and growth unfettered by the corporeal world." - Kirkus Reviews "Can the needs of the living and dead sometimes merge? Eleven-year-old Marcus desire to believe so leads him, and us, on a harrowing and unforgettable journey toward an answer. Grief Cottage further confirms that Gail Godwin is one of our countrys very finest novelists." -Ron Rash, author of The Risen and Above the Waterfall Promotional "Headline" The haunting tale of a desolate cottage, and the hair-thin junction between this life and the next, from bestselling National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin. Feature A PUBLISHING EVENT: An exquisite, tender new novel by a literary legend, a Southern Gothic ghost story with masterfully crafted characters to be published on the occasion of the authors 80th birthday. Details ISBN1632867052 Author Gail Godwin Year 2018 ISBN-10 1632867052 ISBN-13 9781632867056 Format Paperback Pages 336 Media Book Publication Date 2018-08-09 Subtitle A Novel Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY 813.54 Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USA Language English Short Title Grief Cottage UK Release Date 2018-08-09 NZ Release Date 2018-08-09 US Release Date 2018-08-09 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA Audience General AU Release Date 2018-07-31 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:123334707;

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