Garth Stein
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| Title | : | A Sudden Light |
| Author | : | Garth Stein |
| Book Format | : | ebook |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 400 pages |
| Published | : | August 28th 2014 by Simon & Schuster UK |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Mystery. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fantasy. Paranormal. Ghosts |
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When a boy tries to save his parents’ marriage, he uncovers a legacy of family secrets in a coming-of-age ghost story by the author of the internationally bestselling phenomenon, The Art of Racing in the Rain. In the summer of 1990, fourteen-year-old Trevor Riddell gets his first glimpse of Riddell House. Built from the spoils of a massive timber fortune, the legendary family mansion is constructed of giant, whole trees, and is set on a huge estate overlooking Puget Sound. Trevor’s bankrupt parents have begun a trial separation, and his father, Jones Riddell, has brought Trevor to Riddell House with a goal: to join forces with his sister, Serena, dispatch Grandpa Samuel—who is flickering in and out of dementia—to a graduated living facility, sell off the house and property for development into “tract housing for millionaires,” divide up the profits, and live happily ever after. But Trevor soon discovers there’s someone else living in Riddell House: a ghost with an agenda of his own. For while the land holds tremendous value, it is also burdened by the final wishes of the family patriarch, Elijah, who mandated it be allowed to return to untamed forestland as a penance for the millions of trees harvested over the decades by the Riddell Timber company. The ghost will not rest until Elijah’s wish is fulfilled, and Trevor’s willingness to face the past holds the key to his family’s future. A Sudden Light is a rich, atmospheric work that is at once a multigenerational family saga, a historical novel, a ghost story, and the story of a contemporary family’s struggle to connect with each other. A tribute to the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest, it reflects Garth Stein’s outsized capacity for empathy and keen understanding of human motivation, and his rare ability to see the unseen: the universal threads that connect us allDetails Books Conducive To A Sudden Light
| Original Title: | A Sudden Light |
| ISBN: | 0857205781 (ISBN13: 9780857205780) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Rating Epithetical Books A Sudden Light
Ratings: 3.62 From 12018 Users | 2040 ReviewsWeigh Up Epithetical Books A Sudden Light
Those who follow my reviews know I am a sucker for a good family secrets novel and this one had it allsecrets, spirits/ghosts, lies, deception and a great generational story. I enjoyed Steins book The Art of Racing in the Rain and when I saw he had a new book coming out I requested this one on Netgalley and once I started I could not put it down.I really enjoyed this story I liked the flow of it and the writing, I felt like Trevor was telling me his story and I was completely enthralled.MyAs of this date, 2/11/14, it's possible that I'm the only GoodReads reviewer who has actually read this book in manuscript form. It's not yet available in galley. And it's not the time to reveal anything about it other than, you're going to love it. Pure Garth Stein, for all the things you love in his work: strong voice, quirky characters, a little mysticism and magic, breathtaking settings in the Northwest, and a story that takes you by surprise, makes you laugh, then cry, then want to read it
Well crap..I had such high hopes for this book. Plus it starts off so very good. The 14 year old in the story is smart and funny. His voice is a breathe of fresh air-then well...It got so boring that I just couldn't do it anymore.Trevor is with his "separated" father as he goes back to Seattle to hopefully sell the family house. One problem there is that his father (with whom dementia has supposedly set in)wants to stick to the original ancestor's request that the home and lands just be returned
In 1990, at the age of 14 Trevor Riddell discovers that his family were once quite wealthy. His great great grandfather Elijah Riddell had built a massive fortune on harvesting timber from the pristine forests of the Puget Sound in Washington State. Facing bankruptcy and the end of his marriage, Trevor's father Jones takes Trevor to the crumbling old family mansion in the last reserve of Pacific Northwest forest to try to talk his father Samuel into selling the land to property developers.
Read this review on my blogThe main character in A Sudden Light is Trevor, a fourteen-year-old boy, who spends the summer in his familys giant estate. His father and aunt are trying to convince their ailing father to sell it, since its very valuable and theyre poor. However, the house is haunted by the ghost of Ben, the son of the familys patriarch, Elijah Riddell. Heres the thing: Ben believes that the North Estate ought to be returned to nature after the family stops living there, and he wont
Hands down, five stars. Garth Stein doesn't pump them out, but when he does he makes sure it was worth waiting for. Well, I love a good ghost story. At least, if it's done right. This one is done right. Make that more than done right. The 14-year-old narrator, Trevor, is bright, cogent, yet has enough naivete to be believably a young teen. He has feelings that he needs to have, especially if he is to accomplish his mission: get his parents back together. At least, he starts out thinking that is
REVIEW: A SUDDEN LIGHT by Garth SteinI had never before read any of Garth Stein 's novels, though I own a Kindle copy of THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN. From the first pages of A SUDDEN LIGHT I was enraptured, fascinated, and engrossed. This is a very special novel, an exceptional one. With a plethora of delicately peeled character studies, a multiply hot-button plot, and the ease with which history intertwines with contemporary, and Supernatural with consensus reality--not to mention truly
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