La Hora Del Fantasma/ the Time of the Ghost

Hardcover, 254 pages

Spanish language

Published July 1, 2006 by Roca.

ISBN:
978-84-96544-52-9
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OCLC Number:
74884109

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From Publishers Weekly Published in Great Britain in 1981 and available here for the first time, this gripping novel serves up often giddily hilarious fantasy that nonetheless deals unflinchingly with some ugly issues. At least twice in the course of the multi-layered narrative, the heroine has not the faintest idea who she is?a powerful metaphor for the novel's underlying theme of alienation from self. The story begins with the as-yet-nameless heroine floating?literally?through a boys' boarding school and its outlying grounds, a setting she finds oddly familiar. With a little spectral sleuthing (easy enough to accomplish when you're invisible) the disembodied spirit concludes that she is Sally Medford, one of a quartet of eccentric sisters who live at the school and are grossly neglected by their overworked schoolmaster parents. As the plot continues on its intriguingly convoluted path, evidence of time-travel begins to emerge: the college-age Sally is in a hospital, …

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Subjects

  • Jones, Diana Wynne
  • Juvenile Horror / Ghost Stories
  • Juvenile Fiction
  • Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
  • Children's Books/All Ages
  • Spanish: Grades 4-7
  • General
  • Horror & Ghost Stories
  • Family - Siblings