{"product_id":"lost-paperback","title":"Lost - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGregory Maguire\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A brilliant, perceptive, and deeply moving fable.\" \u003cbr\u003e--\u003cem\u003eBoston Sunday Globe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/em\u003ecalls Gregory Maguire's \u003cem\u003eLost \u003c\/em\u003e\"a deftly written, compulsively readable modern-day ghost story.\" Brilliantly weaving together the literary threads of J.M. Barrie's \u003cem\u003ePeter Pan\u003c\/em\u003e, Charles Dickens's \u003cem\u003eA Christmas Carol, \u003c\/em\u003eand the Jack the Ripper stories, \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ethe bestselling author of The Wicked Years canon creates a captivating fairy tale for the modern world. With \u003cem\u003eLost, \u003c\/em\u003eMaguire--who re-imagined a darker, more dangerous Oz, and inspired the creation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway blockbuster \u003cem\u003eWicked\u003c\/em\u003e--delivers a haunting tale of shadows and phantoms and things going bump in the night, confirming his reputation as \"one of contemporary fiction's most assured myth-makers\" (\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinifred Rudge, a bemused writer struggling to get beyond the runaway success of her mass-market astrology book, travels to London to jump-start her new novel about a woman who is being haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper. Upon her arrival, she finds that her stepcousin and old friend John Comestor has disappeared, and a ghostly presence seems to have taken over his home. Is the spirit Winnie's great-great-grandfather, who, family legend claims, was Charles Dickens's childhood inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge? Could it be the ghostly remains of Jack the Ripper? Or a phantasm derived from a more arcane and insidious origin? Winnie begins to investigate and finds herself the unwilling audience for a drama of specters and shades--some from her family's peculiar history and some from her own unvanquished past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the spirit of A. S. Byatt's \u003cem\u003ePossession, \u003c\/em\u003e with dark echoing overtones of \u003cem\u003eA Christmas Carol, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eLost\u003c\/em\u003e presents a rich fictional world that will enrapture its readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.99 x 9.28 x 6.16 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 17, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42684174499903,"sku":"9780060988647","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/df9303da86247bc96bd388c836122bc3.webp?v=1764966639","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/lost-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}