260 pages
English language
Published 2009
When a young writer finds himself cornered by a beautiful widow in the waning hours of a late-night cocktail party, he seeks at first to escape, to return to his wife and infant son, but the tale she weaves, of her missing husband, a renowned English professor, and her lost stepson, a soldier killed on a battlefield on the other side of the world, of phantasmal visions, a family curse, and a house ... the Belvedere House, a striking mansion whose features suggest a face, hidden just out of view, draws him in, capturing him. What follows is a deeply psychological ghost story of memory and malediction, loss and remorse.
It’s a ghost story where an English professor talks about his career and people talk about Dickens as if it matters. The single best part of the book is when Roger gets punched in the face by his wife.
I bought this book on kindle from a recommendation in r/wierdlit and I want my 99 cents back.
