All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Elizabeth Brundage
• Title: All Things Cease To Appear
• Publisher: ‎ Thorndike Press Large Print; Large Print Edition (June 22, 2016)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover w/Library Binding – 669 pages‏
• ISBN-10: ‎ 141048985X
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1410489852
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.54 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 6.5 x 1.5 x 8.75 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good (Former library book; may include the markings and stickers associated from the library. May show signs of wear or minor discoloration on page edges). 
• Cover Condition: Very Good
• Edition: Large Print Edition

Synopsis:

“This literary thriller's complex narrative involves a cursed house, an unsolved murder and impeccable writing.” —The New York Times Book Review • The basis for the Netflix film Things Heard and Seen

 

Recent transplants to the small town of Chosen, New York, the Clares have not received the warmest welcome; once a thriving dairy farm, their home is haunted by the tragedy that left the former owner’s three sons orphaned and adrift. 

 

Late one winter afternoon, professor George Clare knocks on his neighbor’s door with terrible news: he returned from work to find his wife, Catherine, murdered in their bed. Someone took an ax to her head while their three-year-old daughter, Franny, played alone in her room across the hall.  

 

As one dark secret peels away to reveal others—and as the Clare marriage reveals itself to have a sinister darkness that rivals the farm’s history—Elizabeth Brundage offers a rich and complex portrait of the scars that can haunt a community for generations and the dark longings inside each and every one of us that drive us to do inexplicable things.

About the Author:

Elizabeth Brundage is the author of five novels. Her latest, The Vanishing Point, grew out of her love of photography and the ways in which the photographs we make reflect some aspect of who we are. Her previous novel, All Things Cease to Appear, was a WSJ best mystery of 2016 and was the basis for the Netflix film Things Heard and Seen.

She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop where she received a James Michener Award, and attended the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Witness, New Letters, Greensboro Review and elsewhere.

She has taught at several colleges and universities, most recently at Skidmore College, where she was a visiting writer in residence, and lives with her family in Albany, New York.