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The Ghost Clause

The Ghost Clause

Norman, Howard

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HorrorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $15.99

ISBN10: 0358305624
ISBN13: 9780358305620
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: Jul 7 2020
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
National Book Award finalist Howard Norman delivers another provocative . . . haunting* novel, this time set in a Vermont village and featuring a missing child, a newly married private detective, and a highly relatable ghost.

*Janet Maslin, New York Times

Simon Inescort is no longer bodily present in his marriage. It's been several months since he keeled over the rail of a Nova Scotia-bound ferry, a massive heart attack to blame. Simon's widow, Lorca Pell, has sold their farmhouse to newlyweds Zachary and Muriel--after revealing that the deed contains a ghost clause, an actual legal clause, not unheard of in Vermont, allowing for reimbursement if a recently purchased home turns out to be haunted.

In fact, Simon finds himself still at home: Every waking moment, I'm astonished I have any consciousness . . . What am I to call myself now, a revenant? He spends time replaying his marriage in his own mind, as if in poignant reel-to-reel, while also engaging in occasionally intimate observation of the new homeowners. But soon the crisis of a missing child, a local eleven-year-old, threatens the tenuous domestic equilibrium, as the weight of the case falls to Zachary, a rookie private detective with the Green Mountain Agency.

The Ghost Clause is a heartrending, affirming portrait of two marriages--one in its afterlife, one new and erotically charged--and of the Vermont village life that sustains and remakes them.

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