Description
A ghost has no substance, but it has power - and presence - and it can appear in alternative forms. In the metaverse, we are all alternative forms. The Dead will join us.
The genre-bending and dazzling new collection of ghost stories from the Sunday Times bestselling Jeanette Winterson
'Always passionate and provocative'
NEW STATESMAN
'One of the wittiest writers around today'
NATASHA PULLEY, author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
Our lives are digital, exposed and always-on. We track our friends and family wherever they go. We have millennia of knowledge at our fingertips.
We know everything about our world. But we know nothing about theirs.
We have changed, but our ghosts have not. They've simply adapted and innovated, found new channels to reach us. They inhabit our apps and wander the metaverse just as they haunt our homes and our memories, always seeking new ways to connect.
To live amongst us.
To remind us.
To tempt us.
To take their revenge.
These stories are not ours to tell. They are the stories of the dead - of those we've lost, loved, forgotten... and feared. Some are fiction. But some may not be.
About the Author
Jeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester. She published her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, at twenty-five. Over two decades later she revisited that material in her internationally bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?. Winterson has written thirteen novels for adults and two previous collections of short stories, as well as children's books, non-fiction and screenplays. She is Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London.
Reviews
I loved Night Side of the River. Jeanette Winterson is one of the wittiest writers around today... I can't think of any other writer who can treat death and horror with such lightheartedness and pragmatic cheerfulness but without losing the cold-yet-cosy frisson that comes with all the best ghost stories. MR James would be very happy! -- Natasha Pulley, author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
Many consider her to be the best living writer in this language * Evening Standard *
A captivating and chilling collection examining grief, revenge and how technology can breach the boundary between life and death * Sunday Express *
Spine-chillingly good * i *
Winterson is always passionate and provocative * New Statesman *
A thought-provoking collection of short stories... The theme that runs through all the stories is loss and how it haunts the living * Daily Mirror *
A collection of ghost stories that range from campfire-level spooks to speculative reflections on the meaning of life.. As challenging and entertaining as anything undertaken by this endlessly ingenious writer * Los Angeles Times *
In these enjoyable tales Winterson has ably served the genre, while also sketching some unsettling future directions the ghost story might take * Literary Review *
Memorable... These supernatural tales are satisfyingly disconcerting * Publishers Weekly *
This collection is as hair-raising and suspenseful as it is witty and thought-provoking * UK Press Syndication *
Book Information
ISBN 9781787334182
Author Jeanette Winterson
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 320g
Dimensions(mm) 212mm * 134mm * 128mm
