The Resource The children's home : a novel, Charles Lambert
The children's home : a novel, Charles Lambert
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The item The children's home : a novel, Charles Lambert represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS).
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- Summary
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- "For fans of Shirley Jackson, Neil Gaiman, Roald Dahl, and Edward Gorey, a beguiling and disarming debut novel from an award-winning British author about a mysterious group of children who appear to a disfigured recluse and his country doctor--and the startling revelations their behavior evokes. In a sprawling estate, willfully secluded, lives Morgan Fletcher, the disfigured heir to a fortune of mysterious origins. Morgan spends his days in quiet study, avoiding his reflection in mirrors and the lake at the end of his garden. One day, two children, Moira and David, appear. Morgan takes them in, giving them free reign of the mansion he shares with his housekeeper Engel. Then more children begin to show up. Dr. Crane, the town physician and Morgan's lone tether to the outside world, is as taken with the children as Morgan, and begins to spend more time in Morgan's library. But the children behave strangely. They show a prescient understanding of Morgan's past, and their bizarre discoveries in the mansion attics grow increasingly disturbing. Every day the children seem to disappear into the hidden rooms of the estate, and perhaps, into the hidden corners of Morgan's mind. The Children's Home is a genre-defying, utterly bewitching masterwork, an inversion of modern fairy tales like The Chronicles of Narnia and The Golden Compass, in which children visit faraway lands to accomplish elusive tasks. Lambert writes from the perspective of the visited, weaving elements of psychological suspense, Jamesian stream of consciousness, and neo-gothic horror, to reveal the inescapable effects of abandonment, isolation, and the grotesque--as well as the glimmers of goodness--buried deep within the soul"--
- "For fans of Shirley Jackson, Neil Gaiman, Roald Dahl, and Edward Gorey, a beguiling and disarming debut novel from an award-winning British author about a mysterious group of children who appear to a disfigured recluse and his country doctor--and the startling revelations their behavior evokes"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Scribner Hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 210 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501117404
- Label
- The children's home : a novel
- Title
- The children's home
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Charles Lambert
- Title variation
- childrens home
- Subject
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- trueHousehold employees
- trueMansions
- Mansions -- Fiction
- Mystery fiction
- truePeople with disfigurements
- truePhysicians
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- trueRecluses
- trueSecrets
- Secrets -- Fiction
- trueAbandoned children
- Children
- Children -- Conduct of life -- Fiction
- Children -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Disfigured persons
- Disfigured persons -- Fiction
- trueEngland
- trueFactories
- Fiction
- trueGood and evil
- Mansions
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- "For fans of Shirley Jackson, Neil Gaiman, Roald Dahl, and Edward Gorey, a beguiling and disarming debut novel from an award-winning British author about a mysterious group of children who appear to a disfigured recluse and his country doctor--and the startling revelations their behavior evokes. In a sprawling estate, willfully secluded, lives Morgan Fletcher, the disfigured heir to a fortune of mysterious origins. Morgan spends his days in quiet study, avoiding his reflection in mirrors and the lake at the end of his garden. One day, two children, Moira and David, appear. Morgan takes them in, giving them free reign of the mansion he shares with his housekeeper Engel. Then more children begin to show up. Dr. Crane, the town physician and Morgan's lone tether to the outside world, is as taken with the children as Morgan, and begins to spend more time in Morgan's library. But the children behave strangely. They show a prescient understanding of Morgan's past, and their bizarre discoveries in the mansion attics grow increasingly disturbing. Every day the children seem to disappear into the hidden rooms of the estate, and perhaps, into the hidden corners of Morgan's mind. The Children's Home is a genre-defying, utterly bewitching masterwork, an inversion of modern fairy tales like The Chronicles of Narnia and The Golden Compass, in which children visit faraway lands to accomplish elusive tasks. Lambert writes from the perspective of the visited, weaving elements of psychological suspense, Jamesian stream of consciousness, and neo-gothic horror, to reveal the inescapable effects of abandonment, isolation, and the grotesque--as well as the glimmers of goodness--buried deep within the soul"--
- "For fans of Shirley Jackson, Neil Gaiman, Roald Dahl, and Edward Gorey, a beguiling and disarming debut novel from an award-winning British author about a mysterious group of children who appear to a disfigured recluse and his country doctor--and the startling revelations their behavior evokes"--
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- Provided by publisher
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10462615
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1953-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lambert, Charles
- Dewey number
- 823/.92
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR6112.A5225
- LC item number
- C48 2016
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Mansions
- Disfigured persons
- Children
- Children
- Secrets
- Children
- Disfigured persons
- Mansions
- Label
- The children's home : a novel, Charles Lambert
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn904813306
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First Scribner Hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 210 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501117404
- Lccn
- 2015027042
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)904813306
- Label
- The children's home : a novel, Charles Lambert
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn904813306
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First Scribner Hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 210 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501117404
- Lccn
- 2015027042
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)904813306
Subject
- trueHousehold employees
- trueMansions
- Mansions -- Fiction
- Mystery fiction
- truePeople with disfigurements
- truePhysicians
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- trueRecluses
- trueSecrets
- Secrets -- Fiction
- trueAbandoned children
- Children
- Children -- Conduct of life -- Fiction
- Children -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Disfigured persons
- Disfigured persons -- Fiction
- trueEngland
- trueFactories
- Fiction
- trueGood and evil
- Mansions
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