Ghostly Lover

by Elizabeth Hardwick

Book Overview

Living with her brother and grandmother while her parents drift from place to place, Marian Coleman finally decides to move to New York by herself and beg a new life. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0860685349
• ISBN13: 9780860685340
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Trafalgar Square
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Ghostly Lover strikes deep and true.

The Ghostly Lover tracks the shifting currents of the emotions, thoughts, and observations of it's characters with terrific precision and care. Elizabeth Hardwick is so sensitive to the curves of our moods, how a frown or a passing reminiscence can send us spinning elsewhere. We are so immersed in the minds and hearts of the characters that it is hard to wake up from the book and not experience the world as they would. An upper middle-class Kentucky family, lost in themselves, the young daughter desparate to break from the strictures of niceties and surface-skimming chit chat, but with no model to learn from save the black maid, whom she idolizes for her brutality and rawness. This book had a huge effect on me. It inspired me to observe with the same sensitivity my own heart and others around me...as well as the tiny details of the world around us. If you read this, please write me and tell me what you thought. I can't stop thinking about it.