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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Thorndike Pr
Publication date January 9, 2007
Pages 389
Binding Hardcover
Edition Large print
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780786291953
ISBN-10 0786291958
Dimensions 1.25 by 5.50 by 8.50 in.
Weight 1.20 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $29.95
Other format details large print
§As reported by publisher
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description:

From National Book Award finalist Jennifer Egan, author of Look at Me (“Brilliantly unnerving . . . A haunting, sharp, splendidly articulate novel” —The New York Times), a spellbinding work of literary suspense enacted in a chilling psychological landscape—a dazzling tour de force.

Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank whose devastating consequences changed both their lives, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe, a castle steeped in blood lore and family pride. Built over a secret system of caves and tunnels, the castle and its violent history invoke and subvert all the elements of a gothic past: twins, a pool, an old baroness, a fearsome tower. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results. And as the full horror of their predicament unfolds, a prisoner, in jail for an unnamed crime, recounts an unforgettable story—a story about two cousins who unite to renovate a castle—that brings the crimes of the past and present into piercing relation.

Egan’s relentlessly gripping page-turner plays with rich forms—ghost story, love story, gothic—and transfixing themes: the undertow of history, the fate of imagination in the cacophony of modern life, the uncanny likeness between communications technology and the supernatural. In a narrative that shifts seamlessly from an ancient European castle to a maximum security prison, Egan conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep—the last stand, the final holdout, the place you run to when the walls are breached—is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive.

A novel of fierce intelligence and velocity; a bravura performance from a writer of consummate skill and style.



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Hardcover
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Large print edition from Thorndike Pr (January 9, 2007)
9780786291953 | details & prices | 389 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.20 lbs | List price $29.95
About: From National Book Award finalist Jennifer Egan, author of Look at Me (“Brilliantly unnerving .
from Alfred a Knopf Inc (August 1, 2006)
9781400043927 | details & prices | 256 pages | 6.75 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.20 lbs | List price $23.95
About: Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank whose devastating consequences changed both their lives, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe, a castle steeped in blood lore and family pride.
Paperback
Book cover for 9781400079742
 
from Gardners Books (March 6, 2008)
9780349120447 | details & prices | 256 pages | List price $14.40
Reprint edition from Anchor Books (July 10, 2007)
9781400079742 | details & prices | 255 pages | 5.00 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $15.95
About: Two decades after taking part in a childhood prank whose devastating repercussions changed their lives forever, two cousins are reunited to work on the renovation of a medieval castle in Eastern Europe, a remote, eerie site profoundly influenced by its bloody past, where the two are cut off from the outside world and doomed to reenact the horrific event from their past.
CD/Spoken Word
Book cover for 9781572705609
 
With Geneva Carr (other contributor), Jeff Gurner (other contributor) | Unabridged edition from Audio Partners (August 28, 2006)
9781572705609 | details & prices | 5.25 × 6.25 × 1.25 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $31.95
About: Two decades after taking part in a childhood prank with devastating consequences, two cousins are reunited at a remote medieval castle in Eastern Europe, where they are cut off from the outside world and doomed to reenact the horrific event from their past.
Prebinding
Book cover for 9781439559277
 
Reprint edition from Paw Prints (October 8, 2008)
9781439559277 | details & prices | 255 pages | List price $22.95
About: From National Book Award finalist Jennifer Egan, author of Look at Me (“Brilliantly unnerving .

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