The Night Country
by Stewart O'Nan
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Author: Stewart O'NanEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Published: 2004-10-18
ISBN: 0747571694
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Summary: 4 Stars
Stewart O'Nan's 'The Night Country', along with other more familiar novels such as Alice Sebold's 'The Lovely Bones' and Ali Smith's 'Hotel World', is narrated by the dead - the teenage victims of a horrific car crash. The three ghosts follow the two survivors (one unharmed, the other severely brain-damaged) as the Halloween anniversary of the incident approaches. The resulting narrative voice works very effectively, giving the novel an intense, darkly humorous atmosphere. The book seems to get billed as a standard ghost/horror story, but it's about much more than just shocks and thrills: people's lost dreams and unfulfilled lives, the empty rituals of bereavement, and the minutiae of smalltown life. An excellent novel.
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