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001			016391
005			20231009192236.0
008			120913s2009 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a2009009338
020			_a9781594488801
050	0	0	_aPR6073.A828 _bL58 2009
082	0	0	_aFIC WAT
100	1		_aWaters, Sarah _d, 1966-
245	1	4	_aThe little stranger _c/ Sarah Waters
260			_aNew York _b: Riverhead Books _c, 2009.
300			_a466 p. _c; 24 cm.
520			_aFew authors do dread as well as Waters (The Night Watch). Her latest novel is a ghost story with elements of both The Fall of the House of Usher and Brideshead Revisited. In post-World War II Britain, the financially struggling Dr. Faraday is called to Hundreds Hall, home of the upper-class Ayreses, now fallen on hard times. Ostensibly there to treat Roderick Ayres for a war injury, Faraday soon sees signs of mental declinefirst in Roderick and later in his mother, Mrs. Ayres. Waters builds the suspense slowly, with the skeptical Faraday refusing to accept the explanations of Roderick or of the maid Betty, who believe that there is a supernatural presence in the house. Meanwhile, Faraday becomes enamored of Roderick's sister Caroline and begins to dream of building a family within the confines of the ruined Hundreds Hall. This spooky, satisfying read has the added pleasure of effectively detailing postwar village life, with its rationing, social strictures, and gossip, all on the edge of Britain's massive change to a social state.
650			_aPhysicians _v-Fiction
651		0	_aWarwickshire (England) _v--Fiction
655		7	_aGhost stories
655		7	_aHorror stories
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