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The night country

Stewart O'Nan

2003 · EN

"At midnight on Halloween in a cloistered New England suburb, a car carrying five teenagers leaves a winding road and slams into a tree, killing three of them. One escapes unharmed, another suffers severe brain damage. A year later, summoned by the memories of those closest to them, the three who died come back on a last chilling mission among the living.". "A strange and unsettling ghost story in the tradition of Ray Bradbury and Shirley Jackson. The Night Country creeps through the leaf-strewn streets and quiet cul-de-sacs of a bedroom community, reaching into the desperately connected yet isolated lives of three people changed forever by the accident: Tim, who survived intact but lost everything; Brooks, the cop whose guilty secret has destroyed his life, and Kyle's mom trying to love the new son the doctors returned to her. As the day wanes. and darkness falls, one of them puts a terrible plan into effect, and they find themselves caught in a collision of need and desires, watched over by the knowing ghosts."--BOOK JACKET.

Editions · 5

Paperback
2003 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
229 pp · EN
9780374222154
Paperback
2003 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
229 pp · EN
9780374222154
Paperback
2004 · Thorndike Press
341 pp · EN
9780786261796
Paperback
2004 · Picador
240 pp · EN
9780312424077
Paperback
2005 · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
EN
9780747571742

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