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A captivating collection of ghost stories from "one of the most gifted writers working today" (New York Times), Night Side of the River is as ingeniously provocative as it is downright spooky.
In this delightfully chilling collection, the iconic Jeanette Winterson turns her fearless gaze to the realm of ghosts, interspersing her own encounters with the supernatural alongside hair-raising fictions. Lifting the veil between the living and the dead, Winterson spirits us away to a haunted estate that ensnares a nomadic young couple in its own dark past, a staged immersive ghost tour gone awry, a West Village séance that threatens the bounds between AI and reality, and a vacation home in the metaverse where a widow visits an improved version of her deceased husband. Gloriously gothic and unnervingly contemporary, Winterson examines grief, revenge, and the myriad ways in which technology can disrupt the boundary between life and death.
"Memorable…These supernatural tales are satisfyingly disconcerting." —Publishers Weekly
"Winterson somehow manages to make ghosts boring." —Kirkus Reviews
"A bewitching collection for readers of horror and mystery, with just the right twists." —Booklist
"A collection of ghost stories that range from campfire-level spooks to speculative reflections on the meaning of life...As challenging and entertaining as anything undertaken by this endlessly ingenious writer." —Los Angeles Times
"Winterson's stories...are excellent contemporary examples of how often women have made supernatural fiction their own." —The Washington Post
"Ghost stories that reinvigorate the supernatural...Winterson avoids pastiche, largely through the steady release of intensely portrayed and skillfully deployed emotion." —The Guardian
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Born in Manchester, England, Jeanette Winterson is the author of more than twenty books, including the national bestseller Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, and The Passion. She has won many prizes including the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the E. M. Forster Award, and the Stonewall Award.
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