{"product_id":"the-white-devil-a-novel-isbn-9780061728280","title":"The White Devil: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“[A]crackling literary mystery. . . . Harrow itself contains Shirley Jackson levels of gloomy passages and dark secrets. Smart, scary, sexy, and gorgeously written to boot.” —\u003cem\u003eBooklist \u003c\/em\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoe Hill’s \u003cem\u003eHorns\u003c\/em\u003e meets Donna Tartt’s \u003cem\u003eThe Secret History\u003c\/em\u003e in this bold new thriller from Justin Evans, author of the critically acclaimed \u003cem\u003eA Good and Happy Child\u003c\/em\u003e. When seventeen-year-old Andrew Taylor is transplanted from his American high school to a British boarding school—a high-profile academy for the sons of England’s finest—his father hopes that the boy’s dark past will not follow him from across the Atlantic. But blood, suspense, and intrigue quickly surround Andrew once again as he finds himself struggling with a deadly mystery left unsolved by a student from Harrow School’s past—the enigmatic poet Lord Byron.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eSex, Death, and Boarding School\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen seventeen-year-old Andrew Taylor is transplanted from his American high school to a British boarding school—the English, hypertraditional, all-boys Harrow School—he finds his past mistakes following him, with an added element of horror: visions of a pale, white-haired boy from Harrow's past. Either Andrew is losing his mind, or the house legend about his dormitory being haunted is true.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen one of his schoolmates dies mysteriously of a severe pulmonary illness, Andrew is blamed and spurned by nearly all his peers. In his loneliness and isolation, Andrew becomes obsessed with Lord Byron's story and the poet's status not only as a literary genius and infamous seducer but also as a student at the very different Harrow of two centuries ago—a place rife with violence, squalor, incurable diseases, and tormented love affairs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen frightening and tragic events from that long-ago past start to recur in Harrow's present, and Andrew's haunting begins to seem all too real, he is forced to solve a two-hundred-year-old mystery that threatens the lives of his friends and his teachers—and, most terrifyingly, his own.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“[A] satisfying, suspenseful first novel. . . . Young George’s intriguing story unbalances the reader right up to the book’s deliciously chilling end.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople, on A Good and Happy Child\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe White Devil\u003c\/em\u003e is an intelligent, bristling ghost story with a stunning sense of place, a uniquely frightful spirit, and a band of absolutely charming heroes—Byronic and otherwise. You’ll dread reaching the end-while flipping the pages furiously.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGillian Flynn, author of Sharp Objects and Dark Places\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] crackling literary mystery. . . . Harrow itself contains Shirley Jackson levels of gloomy passages and dark secrets. Smart, scary, sexy, and gorgeously written to boot.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe White Devil\u003c\/em\u003e is a page-turning tour de force. Both a thoughtful and learned homage to the ghost story, and a clever and compelling rethinking of the genre, this is an amazing, frightening, and believable novel. I loved it.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Liss, author of The Devil's Company\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[An] ingenious and creepy supernatural thriller, will give you chills even in the summer heat. Evans has fused a literary mystery, sinister ghost story and Gothic romance with the story of a boy’s intellectual and sexual awakening.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKansas City Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Want a good English ghost story to read by the fire on a cold winter night? [\u003cem\u003eThe White Devil\u003c\/em\u003e] gathers you in lovingly, then takes you in a strangler’s grip with its escalating horrors.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen King, Entertainment Weekly (2011 Pop Culture Favorites)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[An] ingenious and creepy supernatural thriller, will give you chills even in the summer heat. Evans has fused a literary mystery, sinister ghost story and Gothic romance with the story of a boy’s intellectual and sexual awakening.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tuscon Citizen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Gripping. . . . [A] disturbing gothic thriller.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Chilling-to-the-bone. . . . Deliciously frightening, \u003cem\u003eThe White Devil\u003c\/em\u003e is a literary scare story in an earlier tradition before vampires ruled the day, or at least the genre.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Evans ratchets up the suspense at an expert pace. . . . \u003cem\u003eThe White Devil\u003c\/em\u003e [is] an authentic page-turner that may well be devoured in one sitting.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Demonic possession, the provocative topic of Justin Evans’s first novel, \u003cem\u003eA Good and Happy Child\u003c\/em\u003e, takes on a literary twist and a sexual jolt in \u003cem\u003eThe White Devil\u003c\/em\u003e. . . . Evans heaps an assortment of gothic embellishments onto this coming-of-age narrative.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe White Devil\u003c\/em\u003e is part ghost story, part murder mystery, part coming-of-age tale, part romance. It’s a delightful cocktail: Justin Evans gets the balance just right. His writing is crisp, his storytelling vigorous, his sense of the uncanny pitch perfect.  And he’s written a wonderfully creepy book.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eScott Smith, author of A Simple Plan and The Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe White Devil\u003c\/em\u003e is part ghost story, part murder mystery, part coming-of-age tale, part romance. It’s a delightful cocktail. Justin Evans’ writing is crisp, his storytelling vigorous, his sense of the uncanny pitch perfect. And he’s written a wonderfully creepy book.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eScott Smith, author of A Simple Plan and The Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887894196453,"sku":"NP9780061728280","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780061728280.jpg?v=1730227680","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-white-devil-a-novel-isbn-9780061728280","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}