Angelica A Novel
Angelica A Novel by Arthur Phillips, published by Random House Publishing Group on February 12, 2008, is an intriguing exploration of psychological disintegration set in 1880s London. This edition, an advance copy, spans 368 pages and presents a chilling narrative centered around the Barton household, where a ghostly presence haunts the family. As the story unfolds through multiple perspectives, readers are drawn into a world where reality and the supernatural intertwine, raising questions about fear, identity, and the complexities of love.
In Angelica, Phillips seamlessly blends elements of literary fiction with historical and psychological themes, crafting a narrative that challenges perceptions and evokes deep emotional responses. The novel delves into the era’s fascination with psychoanalysis and spiritualism, offering a modern take on classic ghost story motifs. As the characters navigate their intertwined fates, the shifting sympathies and recast events create a rich tapestry of intrigue and suspense, inviting readers to ponder the nature of truth and illusion.
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“A masterpiece . . . seamlessly mixes psychological disintegration, the dissolution of a marriage and . . . a classic ghost story.”—USA Today
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“Angelica impresses first as a clever send-up of the late Victorian novel, and then becomes its own very original thing.
It is engrossing, deeply moving, and—precisely because it is moving—very frightening.”—Stephen King
London, the 1880s. In the dark of night, a chilling spectre is making its way through the Barton household, hovering over the sleeping daughter and terrorizing her fragile mother. Are these visions real, or is there something more sinister, and more human, to fear? As the family’s story is told several times from different perspectives, events are recast, sym- pathies shift, and nothing is as it seems.
Set at the dawn of psychoanalysis and the peak of spiritualism’s acceptance, Angelica is a spellbinding Victorian ghost story, an intriguing literary and psychological puzzle, and a thoroughly modern exploration of identity, reality, and love.
Praise for Angelica
“Starts as a ghost story . . . turns into a spectacular, ever-proliferating tale of mingled motives, psychological menace, and delicately told crises of appetite and loneliness.”—The New Yorker
“Spellbinding . . . cements this young novelist’s reputation as one of the best writers in America.”—The Washington Post Book World
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