Madeleine's Ghost
Author: Girardi, Robert
ISBN: 9780385316361
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 01 Jun 1996
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback / softback
Brooklyn needs a saint. Ned Conti needs a stipend. So the struggling young historian agrees to trace the mysterious past of a Brooklyn nun for evidence of miracles. Trapped in a neighborhood of cheap rents and failed promise, in a rent-controlled apartment suddenly, inexplicably seized by a beautiful and angry ghost, Ned's only refuge is the F train to Manhattan's East Village bars, where he and his friends drown their sorrows in drink....br>br>But Ned is about to heed another call, the siren song of New Orleans, where the history of countless lost souls seems to rise from the steaming streets-and where, ten years before, he ended a brief, passionate affair with a woman whose memory has haunted him ever since. Here, in a city of spirits, Ned will embrace a dead saint and a living sinner...as a beautiful ghost offers him her desire. And his destiny....br>br>Set amid the sleepless energy and seething passion of New York and New Orleans, b>Madeleine's Ghost/b> is a spellbinding novel of lost love, history, and desire-a work of startling originality that is at once exquisitely written and compulsively readable.
ISBN: 9780385316361
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 01 Jun 1996
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback / softback
Brooklyn needs a saint. Ned Conti needs a stipend. So the struggling young historian agrees to trace the mysterious past of a Brooklyn nun for evidence of miracles. Trapped in a neighborhood of cheap rents and failed promise, in a rent-controlled apartment suddenly, inexplicably seized by a beautiful and angry ghost, Ned's only refuge is the F train to Manhattan's East Village bars, where he and his friends drown their sorrows in drink....br>br>But Ned is about to heed another call, the siren song of New Orleans, where the history of countless lost souls seems to rise from the steaming streets-and where, ten years before, he ended a brief, passionate affair with a woman whose memory has haunted him ever since. Here, in a city of spirits, Ned will embrace a dead saint and a living sinner...as a beautiful ghost offers him her desire. And his destiny....br>br>Set amid the sleepless energy and seething passion of New York and New Orleans, b>Madeleine's Ghost/b> is a spellbinding novel of lost love, history, and desire-a work of startling originality that is at once exquisitely written and compulsively readable.
