ANGELICA(ISBN=) 英文原版

From the bestselling author of “The Egyptologist “and “Prague”
comes an even more accomplished and entirely surprising new novel.
Angelica is a spellbinding Victorian ghost story, an intriguing
literary and psychological puzzle, and a meditation on marriage,
childhood, memory, and fear. The novel opens in London, in the
1880s, with the Barton household on the brink of collapse. Mother,
father, and daughter provoke one another, consciously and
unconsciously, and a horrifying crisis is triggered. As the
family’s tragedy is told several times from different perspectives,
events are recast and sympathies shift. In the dark of night, a
chilling sexual spectre is making its way through the house,
hovering over the sleeping girl and terrorizing her fragile mother.
Are these visions real, or is there something more sinister, and
more human, to fear? A spiritualist is summoned to cleanse the
place of its terrors, but with her arrival the complexities of
motive and desire only multiply. The mother’s failing health and
the father’s many secrets fuel the growing conflicts, while the
daughter flirts dangerously with truth and fantasy. While “Angelica
“is reminiscent of such classic horror tales as “The Turn of the
Screw” and “The Haunting of Hill House,” it is also a thoroughly
modern exploration of identity, reality, and love. Set at the dawn
of psychoanalysis and the peak of spiritualism’s acceptance,
Angelica is also an evocative historical novel that explores the
timeless human hunger for certainty. “”Angelica,” Arthur Phillip’s
spellbinding third book, cements this young novelist’s reputation
as one of the best writers in America, a storyteller who combines
Nabokovian wit and subtlety with a narrative urgency that rivals
Stephen King” -“Washington Post” “From the Hardcover edition.”