327 pages

French language

Published Nov. 19, 2003 by Rocher.

ISBN:
978-2-268-04834-5
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OCLC Number:
417391096

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3 stars (1 review)

Dale Stewart, professeur de littérature anglaise à l'université du Montana et auteur d'une série de romans à succès, a vécu des évènements mystérieux dans l'Illinois quarante ans plus tôt lorsqu'il avait douze ans. Dale arrive à un tournant crucial de sa vie : sa femme et sa maîtresse l'ont quitté et il se retrouve sans emploi et dépressif. Il ressent alors le besoin de retourner dans l'Illinois.

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Review of 'A winter haunting' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

It turns out that this book is the sequel to a book, Summer of Night, that I've never read. It doesn't seem to matter much; I understood and liked it anyway.

It's a ghost story and a story about a man who has become self-destructive; an easy and entertaining read. It doesn't have the ambition of many Simmons novels, but it does have a few red herrings to keep you guessing about what is going on, as the past literally comes back to haunt the protagonist when he returns to his home-town and spends the winter trying to write a novel about his childhood in the home of his friend who died far too young.