The Resource The ghost clause, Howard Norman
The ghost clause, Howard Norman
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The item The ghost clause, Howard Norman represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Wake County Public Libraries.This item is available to borrow from 7 library branches.
Resource Information
The item The ghost clause, Howard Norman represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Wake County Public Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 7 library branches.
- Summary
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- National Book Award Finalist Howard Norman delivers another "provocative . . . haunting"* novel, this time set in a Vermont village and featuring a missing child, a newly married private detective, and a highly relatable ghost<br /><br /> (*Janet Maslin, <i>New York Times</i>)
- "Simon Inescort is no longer bodily present in his marriage. It's been several months since he keeled over the rail of a Nova Scotia-bound ferry, a massive heart attack to blame. Simon's widow, Lorca Pell, has sold their farmhouse to newlyweds Zachary and Muriel--after revealing that the deed contains a "ghost clause," an actual legal clause, not unheard of in Vermont, allowing for reimbursement if a recently purchased home turns out to be haunted. In fact, Simon finds himself still at home: "Every waking moment, I'm astonished I have any consciousness ... what am I to call myself now, a revenant?" He spends time replaying his marriage in his own mind, as if in poignant reel-to-reel, while also engaging in occasionally intimate observation of the new homeowners. But soon the crisis of a missing child, a local eleven-year-old, threatens the tenuous domestic equilibrium, as the weight of the case falls to Zachary, a rookie private detective with the Green Mountain Agency."--
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The ghost clause
- Title
- The ghost clause
- Statement of responsibility
- Howard Norman
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- National Book Award Finalist Howard Norman delivers another "provocative . . . haunting"* novel, this time set in a Vermont village and featuring a missing child, a newly married private detective, and a highly relatable ghost<br /><br /> (*Janet Maslin, <i>New York Times</i>)
- "Simon Inescort is no longer bodily present in his marriage. It's been several months since he keeled over the rail of a Nova Scotia-bound ferry, a massive heart attack to blame. Simon's widow, Lorca Pell, has sold their farmhouse to newlyweds Zachary and Muriel--after revealing that the deed contains a "ghost clause," an actual legal clause, not unheard of in Vermont, allowing for reimbursement if a recently purchased home turns out to be haunted. In fact, Simon finds himself still at home: "Every waking moment, I'm astonished I have any consciousness ... what am I to call myself now, a revenant?" He spends time replaying his marriage in his own mind, as if in poignant reel-to-reel, while also engaging in occasionally intimate observation of the new homeowners. But soon the crisis of a missing child, a local eleven-year-old, threatens the tenuous domestic equilibrium, as the weight of the case falls to Zachary, a rookie private detective with the Green Mountain Agency."--
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- Cataloging source
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- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Norman, Howard A
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR9199.3.N564
- LC item number
- G48 2019
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Ghosts
- Missing children
- Married people
- Private investigators
- Vermont
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- The ghost clause, Howard Norman
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 245 pages
- Isbn
- 9780544987296
- Lccn
- 2018036020
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- 2018036020
- Label
- The ghost clause, Howard Norman
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 245 pages
- Isbn
- 9780544987296
- Lccn
- 2018036020
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- 2018036020
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Cameron Village Regional LibraryBorrow it1930 Clark Avenue, Raleigh, NC, 27605, US35.789611 -78.6579744
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Cary Community LibraryBorrow it310 South Academy Street, Cary, NC, 27511, US35.784208 -78.78162309999999
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Holly Springs Community LibraryBorrow it300 West Ballentine Street, Holly Springs, NC, 27540, US35.6501234 -78.8363979
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Leesville Community LibraryBorrow it5105 Country Trail, Raleigh, NC, 27613, US35.8854118 -78.71521709999999
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Northeast Regional LibraryBorrow it4401 Green Elm Lane, Raleigh, NC, 27614, US35.9535279 -78.544333
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