A cosmology of monsters : a novel / Shaun Hamill.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [2019]Edition: First editionDescription: 324 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781524747671
- 152474767X
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Hamill, Shaun | Available | 33111009385994 | ||||
Adult Book | Main Library | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Hamill, Shaun | Available | 33111009716735 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"If John Irving ever wrote a horror novel, it would be something like this. I loved it." --Stephen King
Noah Turner sees monsters.
His father saw them--and built a shrine to them with The Wandering Dark, an immersive horror experience that the whole family operates.
His practical mother has caught glimpses of terrors but refuses to believe--too focused on keeping the family from falling apart.
And his eldest sister, the dramatic and vulnerable Sydney, won't admit to seeing anything but the beckoning glow of the spotlight . . . until it swallows her up.
Noah Turner sees monsters. But, unlike his family, Noah chooses to let them in . . .
Monsters both figurative and very literal stalk the Turner family. The youngest child, Noah, narrates the family history: how in the late '60s, his bookish mother Margaret marries Lovecraft-lover Harry against her better judgment. The couple has two daughters--Sydney, born for the spotlight, and the brilliant but awkward Eunice, a natural writer and storyteller.
Noah Turner sees monster, both figurative and very literal. They stalk the Turner family, and the father has built a shrine to them with The Wandering Dark, an immersive horror experience that the whole family operates. Noah's mother Margaret refuses to believe in the monsters; she married Lovecraft-lover Harry against her better judgment. Sydney, the eldest daughter, won't admit to seeing anything. Eunice attempts to exorcise them from her mind by writing their story. Noah sees them... and chooses to let them in.... -- adapted from jacket