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White is for Witching
Helen Oyeyemi
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Description for White is for Witching
Paperback. Angela Carter meets Edgar Allen Poe in this mesmerizing spine-tingler from the talented author of The Icarus Girl Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 212.
Haunting in every sense, White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi is a spine-tingling tribute to the power of magic, myth and memory.
High on the cliffs near Dover, the Silver family is reeling from the loss of Lily, mother of twins Eliot and Miranda, and beloved wife of Luc. Miranda misses her with particular intensity. Their mazy, capricious house belonged to her mother’s ancestors, and to Miranda, newly attuned to spirits, newly hungry for chalk, it seems they have never left. Forcing apples to grow in winter, revealing and concealing secret floors, the house is fiercely possessive of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Picador
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330458153
SKU
V9780330458153
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Ref
99-50
About Helen Oyeyemi
Helen Oyeyemi was born in Nigeria in 1984 and moved to London when she was four. She is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The Icarus Girl, which she wrote while she was still at school, The Opposite House, Boy, Snow, Bird and the short story collection What is Not Yours is Not Yours.
Reviews for White is for Witching
Superbly atmospheric. The dark tones of Poe in her haunting have the elasticity of Haruki Murakami’s surreal mental landscapes.
Independent
The kind of prose that creeps off the page, crawls up the spine and burrows deep into the reader’s paralysed mind.
Daily Mail
White is for Witching should establish Oyeyemi as an ambitious voice in modern ... Read more
Independent
The kind of prose that creeps off the page, crawls up the spine and burrows deep into the reader’s paralysed mind.
Daily Mail
White is for Witching should establish Oyeyemi as an ambitious voice in modern ... Read more