Electronic resource
English language
Published Jan. 23, 2009 by Penguin USA, Inc..
Abundantly atmospheric and elegantly told, The Little Stranger is Sarah Waterss most thrilling and ambitious novel yet.
After her award-winning trilogy of victorian novels, sarah waters turned to the 1940s and wrote the night watch, a tender and tragic novel set against the backdrop of wartime britain shortlisted for both the orange and the man booker, it went straight to number one in the bestseller chart in a dusty post-war summer in rural warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at hundreds hall home to the ayres family for over two centuries, the georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, the clock in its stable yard permanently fixed at twenty to nine but are the ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life little does dr faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their …
Abundantly atmospheric and elegantly told, The Little Stranger is Sarah Waterss most thrilling and ambitious novel yet.
After her award-winning trilogy of victorian novels, sarah waters turned to the 1940s and wrote the night watch, a tender and tragic novel set against the backdrop of wartime britain shortlisted for both the orange and the man booker, it went straight to number one in the bestseller chart in a dusty post-war summer in rural warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at hundreds hall home to the ayres family for over two centuries, the georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, the clock in its stable yard permanently fixed at twenty to nine but are the ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life little does dr faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story is about to become entwined with his prepare yourself from this wonderful writer who continues to astonish us, now comes a chilling ghost story.
Add a ghost story, it's really solidly in the ol M. R. James tradition, but what attitudes me as an American is the classism and the seemingly inseparable misogyny of the setting. But most of all, it's a stunningly well-written and crafted book.
Ich habe eigentlich gar keine besondere Liebe zu Romanen über bröckelnde britische Oberschichtgemäuer und käme gut damit klar, nie wieder einen zu lesen. Aber ich sehnte mich nach einer gut geölten Erzählmaschinerie und habe mit diesem Buch angefangen, weil ich "Fingersmith" von Sarah Waters mochte. Es schnurrte dann auch wirklich alles angenehm verlässlich, nur so um die 70%-Marke hing die Handlung ein kleines bisschen durch. Der Schluss war dafür dann wieder interessanter als erwartet.
I found it unsatisfying enough that it is ending my streak of reading her books. I liked all the ones up to this point (publication order) and i still heartily recommend Fingersmith.
I picked this up on a whim after my mom mentioned the slow pace, because I wanted a calm and quiet read. The setting is extremely well-researched and well-written, especially the fate of grand estates in post-war Britain, but I wasn't much interested in the plot or characters.
3.5 stars
After reading mixed reviews, I wasn't sure what to expect and almost quit listening to the audio book. I'm glad I didn't.
I rounded up from 3.5 because Sarah Waters is a great story teller. I felt it was a bit longer than it needed to be but, contrary to many others, I enjoyed the end. Quite a bit.
Another excellent novel from Sarah Waters, hard to put down
