The Picture of Contented New Wealth by Tariq Goddard
Brand: John Hunt Publishing
Product Description
In the brilliant red doom of a Hampshire Sunset Brigit Conti can hear a voice behind her ears that is not her own. Bedbound and complaining of a rare bone disease that no Doctor can diagnose her husband fears that the house they have purchased is a portal through which an older more malign energy has passed possessing his wife and son. Through their successive deterioration his secular and agnostic worldview undergoes a metamorphosis drawing him to a strange man from the hills the Rector their unlikely saviour. Or are he and his family merely victims of their own selfserving yuppie way of life You Were The Picture of Contented New Wealth is a gothic tragedy set in the nineteen eighties bringing proper characterisation and a literary sensibility to the traditional horror story. Its mix of generic elements and mystical realism deal with the irreducibility of evil and its successful normalisation in to our daily and dominant reality.
Condition : New
Author : Tariq Goddard
Weight : 396
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Language : English
EAN : 9781846942709
ISBN10 : 1846942705
Format : Paperback
Date of Publication : 20100226
Place of Publication : United Kingdom
Pagination : 272
Dimensions : 219 X 142 X 13