{"product_id":"lost-a-novel-isbn-9780060988647","title":"Lost: A Novel","description":"\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 \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 | \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 | \u003cp\u003e“A deftly written, compulsively readable modern-day ghost story that easily elicits suspension of disbelief.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A potent ghost story. . . .Maguire’s free-ranging, high-energy imagination is a wonder to behold.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44888554307813,"sku":"NP9780060988647","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780060988647.jpg?v=1730229330","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/lost-a-novel-isbn-9780060988647","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}