Sedgwick, Marcus - White Crow (gothic 2011 1st. ed.)

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Beschrijving

Whats on the other side of death?

New York, Roaring Books, 2011, first American edition

Black cardboard covers
15 x 21,5 x 2,5 cm.
234 Pages

VERY GOOD

A modern gothic thriller, shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.

Supposing you wanted to prove something, something important. Supposing you wanted to prove, for arguments sake, that there is life after death.

1798, 10mo, 6d. I believe he intends to practise some unholy rite, a summoning, a conjuration. A thing of magic.
Two lives, two centuries apart. But they walked the same paths, lived in the same house, and became obsessed by the same question.

When city girl Rebecca steps into the quiet streets of Winterfold that relentlessly hot summer, her uneasy friendship with strange, elfin Ferelith sets in motion a shocking train of events.

The white crow of Marcus Sedgwick's 11th children's novel is, according to an author's note, taken from a line by Henry James's brother, the psychologist William James: "If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black [ . . . ] it is enough to prove one single crow to be white." In an age of spiritualism, the proof of the existence of just one presence from the "other side" would be evidence enough.
The teenage Ferelith one of the novel's three narrators seems to have made a rather literal link. She's seen a white crow presumably an albino and takes it to be proof of the supernatural. Perhaps we are intended to view this as perverse logic from a somewhat disturbed individual. Perhaps it's a leap of faith. (Interestingly, the titles of the chapters narrated by Ferelith seem to be song titles by everyone from Sonic Youth to Gustav Mahler, including Pink's "I'm Not Dead".

A modern gothic thriller, shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.

Supposing you wanted to prove something, something important. Supposing you wanted to prove, for arguments sake, that there is life after death.

1798, 10mo, 6d. I believe he intends to practise some unholy rite, a summoning, a conjuration. A thing of magic.
Two lives, two centuries apart. But they walked the same paths, lived in the same house, and became obsessed by the same question.

When city girl Rebecca steps into the quiet streets of Winterfold that relentlessly hot summer, her uneasy friendship with strange, elfin Ferelith sets in motion a shocking train of events.

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