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Sleep, Pale Sister Introduction of the ebook: Sleep, Pale Sister
Đánh giá : 3.29 /5 (sao)
Before the sweet delight of Chocolat, before the heady concoction that is Blackberry Wine, and before the tart pleasures of Five Quarters of the Orange, bestselling author Joanne Harris wrote Sleep, Pale Sister — a gothic tourde-force that recalls the powerfully dark sensibility of her novel Holy Fools.
Originally published in 1994 — and never before available in the Unit Before the sweet delight of Chocolat, before the heady concoction that is Blackberry Wine, and before the tart pleasures of Five Quarters of the Orange, bestselling author Joanne Harris wrote Sleep, Pale Sister — a gothic tourde-force that recalls the powerfully dark sensibility of her novel Holy Fools.
Originally published in 1994 — and never before available in the United States — Sleep, Pale Sister is a hypnotically atmospheric story set in nineteenth century London. When puritanical artist Henry Chester sees delicate child beauty Effie, he makes her his favorite model and, before long, his bride. But Henry, volatile and repressed, is in love with an ideal. Passive, docile, and asexual, the woman he projects onto Effie is far from the woman she really is. And when Effie begins to discover the murderous depths of Henry’s hypocrisy, her latent passion will rise to the surface.
Sleep, Pale Sister combines the ethereal beauty of a Pre-Raphaelite painting with a chilling high gothic tale and is a testament to Harris’s brimming cornucopia of talents.
This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more. …more
Review ebook Sleep, Pale Sister
I couldn’t get into this one. Harris plays with her usual theme of asceticism versus carnality but it’s too obvious here. The characters know themselves and their motives too well and are constantly explaining this to the reader instead of letting the reader draw their own conclusions. I could’ve done without the two male pov’s as well. I despised them both but not in a good way: I hated reading their thoughts. It should’ve been Effie’s pov the whole book. The atmosphere was off and so were the I couldn’t get into this one. Harris plays with her usual theme of asceticism versus carnality but it’s too obvious here. The characters know themselves and their motives too well and are constantly explaining this to the reader instead of letting the reader draw their own conclusions. I could’ve done without the two male pov’s as well. I despised them both but not in a good way: I hated reading their thoughts. It should’ve been Effie’s pov the whole book. The atmosphere was off and so were the characterisations. The language was correct but too weighty. Dnf at 40% …more
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