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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
1439172544
ISBN-13
9781439172544
eBay Product ID (ePID)
175722294
Product Key Features
Book Title
Quiet Dell : a Novel
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Thrillers / Crime, Mystery & Detective / Historical, Contemporary Women, Crime, Literary, Historical
Publication Year
2014
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
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Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
14 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2013-016013
Reviews
Phillips' extensive reporting--she quotes from newspaper stories, letters between Eicher and her 'suitor' and the trial transcript--gives the book its considerable heft. And her creation of a Chicago reporter named Emily Thornhill helps to frame the story of the eight-decade-old event in a fresh way. Quiet Dell is a smart combination of true crime, history and fiction tied together with Phillips' seamlessly elegant writing ....As the book proceeds to its dark conclusion, Emily offers readers a glimpse of light., An extraordinary achievement , a mesmerizing blend of fact and fiction that borrows from the historical record, including trial transcripts and newspaper accounts, but is cloaked in the shimmering language of a poet., Compelling...Richly imagined...Phillips's achievement is to reveal how intimately cruelty and kindness unfold., A mesmerizing novel drawn from the annals of infamous true crime...Meticulous, engrossing and spellbinding., Phillips's prose is as haunting as the questions she raises about the natures of sin, evil and grace., The truth of all of Phillips' characterizations is what lies behind this careful novel's compelling momentum., Hauntingly imagines the victims' hopes, dreams, and terror...Phillips blends fact and fiction in a darkly poetic way: The result is an absorbing novel that leaves us rooting for the heroine Emily becomes-and mourning the lives the Eichers never got to enjoy., Phillips's plot is engaging, romantic, and fecund ; her characters are beautiful, accomplished, and good--except for the bad guy, who is very bad indeed., Jayne Anne Phillips's unsettling latest, Quiet Dell , spins out from a true crime story involving a 1930s-era-seducer--think Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter --who preys on a widow and her children., Jayne Anne Phillips is one of the finest pure stylists in contemporary literature, and she's found a story that sounds like a perfect match for her talents., A novel of compelling impressions... Triumphant ...[Jayne Anne Phillips is] perceptive enough to hear, and respond to, the smallest of humanity's sounds., A mesmerizing novel drawn from the annals of infamous true crime... Meticulous, engrossing and spellbinding ., Hauntingly imagines the victims' hopes, dreams, and terror...Phillips blends fact and fiction in a darkly poetic way: The result is an absorbing novel that leaves us rooting for the heroine Emily becomes--and mourning the lives the Eichers never got to enjoy., Sometimes eerie and dreamlike, others grippingly tense, yet warmly human, always written with beauty and emotional power, Quiet Dell is a virtuoso performance by a highly original writer ., Phillips' extensive reporting-she quotes from newspaper stories, letters between Eicher and her 'suitor' and the trial transcript-gives the book its considerable heft. And her creation of a Chicago reporter named Emily Thornhill helps to frame the story of the eight-decade-old event in a fresh way. Quiet Dell is a smart combination of true crime, history and fiction tied together with Phillips' seamlessly elegant writing ....As the book proceeds to its dark conclusion, Emily offers readers a glimpse of light., Jayne Anne Phillips is one of the finest pure stylists in contemporary literature , and she's found a story that sounds like a perfect match for her talents., Phillips's effort to do justice -- aesthetic and moral -- to the victims feels bold and honorable... moving, even transporting ...Phillips allows her own ample gifts to soar., Phillips's plot is engaging, romantic, and fecund ; her characters are beautiful, accomplished, and good-except for the bad guy, who is very bad indeed., Quiet Dell has all the elements of a murder mystery, but its emotional scope is larger and more complex. It combines a strange, hypnotic and poetic power with the sharp tones of documentary evidence. It offers a portrait of rural America in a time of crisis and dramatizes the lives of a number of characters who are fascinating and memorable., Gripping...Chilling ...The novel's heartbeat is Emily, a Chicago Tribune reporter covering Powers' arrest and trial... Quiet Dell does what Emily can't, thoughtfully grafting a 21st-century sensibility onto 20th-century ghastliness. Emily resists the fetters placed on her as a journalist and a woman, while Eric, a gay photographer who accompanies her, is a keen observer of closeted life in the South. Phillips exposes the era's prejudices less to render judgment than to show how cannily people like Emily and Eric worked around them., Phillips, an acclaimed writer of largely contemporary fiction, this time draws on history: a criminal case from the early '30s....But if the factual underpinnings of this latest novel are unusual for Phillips, her ability to transform them into a fictionalized narrative place her at the top of her form . Phillips has carefully inserted imagined private moments and just a few fictional characters to create a story both splendid and irreparably sad... As Phillips has proved throughout her decades of fiction writing, there is evil in the world, but there are some who will stand in its way., [ Quiet Dell 's] success is due to a bold decision: Ms. Phillips has written a serial killer novel in which the serial killer hardly appears....Unabashed... There is a glowing beauty to the book's brave, generous version of history ., In Quiet Dell , Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young female reporter on the case to solve it., In Quiet Dell , Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction , vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young female reporter on the case to solve it., In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of a serial killer's crimes and capture, yes, but it's also a compulsively readable story of how one brave woman faces up to acts of terrible violence in order to create something good and strong in the aftermath. Quiet Dell will be compared to In Cold Blood , but Phillips offers something Capote could not: a heroine who lights up the dark places and gives us hope in our humanity., Phillips's plot is engaging, romantic, and fecund; her characters are beautiful, accomplished, and good--except for the bad guy, who is very bad indeed., Phillips's effort to do justice - aesthetic and moral - to the victims feels bold and honorable... moving, even transporting ...Phillips allows her own ample gifts to soar., Jayne Anne Phillips's unsettling latest, Quiet Dell , spins out from a true crime story involving a 1930s-era-seducer-think Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter -who preys on a widow and her children.
Synopsis
From the National Book Award longlisted author of Night Watch , a spectacularly riveting novel based on a real-life crime by a con man who preyed on widows: "a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction" (Stephen King). In Chicago in 1931, Asta Eicher, a lonely mother of three, is desperate for money after the sudden death of her husband. She begins to receive seductive letters from a chivalrous, elegant man named Harry Powers, who promises to cherish and protect her, ultimately to marry her and to care for her and her children. Weeks later, Asta and her three children are dead. Emily Thornhill, one of the few women journalists in the Chicago press, wants to understand what happened to this beautiful family, particularly to the youngest child, Annabel, an enchanting girl with a precocious imagination and sense of magic. Determined, Emily travels to West Virginia to cover the murder trial and to investigate the story herself, accompanied by a charming and unconventional photographer equally drawn to the case. These heroic characters, driven by secrets of their own, will stop at nothing to ensure Powers is convicted. A tragedy, a love story, and a tour de force of obsession, Jayne Anne Phillips's Quiet Dell "hauntingly imagines the victims' hopes, dreams, and terror" ( O, The Oprah Magazine ). It is a mesmerizing and deeply moving novel from one of America's most celebrated writers., From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch , a spectacularly riveting novel based on a real-life crime by a con man who preyed on widows: "a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction" (Stephen King). In Chicago in 1931, Asta Eicher, a lonely mother of three, is desperate for money after the sudden death of her husband. She begins to receive seductive letters from a chivalrous, elegant man named Harry Powers, who promises to cherish and protect her, ultimately to marry her and to care for her and her children. Weeks later, Asta and her three children are dead. Emily Thornhill, one of the few women journalists in the Chicago press, wants to understand what happened to this beautiful family, particularly to the youngest child, Annabel, an enchanting girl with a precocious imagination and sense of magic. Determined, Emily travels to West Virginia to cover the murder trial and to investigate the story herself, accompanied by a charming and unconventional photographer equally drawn to the case. These heroic characters, driven by secrets of their own, will stop at nothing to ensure Powers is convicted. A tragedy, a love story, and a tour de force of obsession, Jayne Anne Phillips's Quiet Dell "hauntingly imagines the victims' hopes, dreams, and terror" ( O, The Oprah Magazine ). It is a mesmerizing and deeply moving novel from one of America's most celebrated writers., A spectacularly riveting novel based on a real life crime by a con man who preyed on widows: "a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year" (Stephen King)--"think In Cold Blood meets The Lovely Bones-- but sexy" ( People ). In Chicago in 1931, Asta Eicher, a lonely mother of three, is desperate for money after the sudden death of her husband. She begins to receive seductive letters from a chivalrous, elegant man named Harry Powers, who promises to cherish and protect her, ultimately to marry her and to care for her and her children. Weeks later, Asta and her three children are dead. Emily Thornhill, one of the few women journalists in the Chicago press, wants to understand what happened to this beautiful family, particularly to the youngest child, Annabel, an enchanting girl with a precocious imagination and sense of magic. Determined, Emily travels to West Virginia to cover the murder trial and to investigate the story herself, accompanied by a charming and unconventional photographer equally drawn to the case. These heroic characters, driven by secrets of their own, will stop at nothing to ensure Powers is convicted. A tragedy, a love story, and a tour de force of obsession, Jayne Anne Phillips's Quiet Dell "hauntingly imagines the victims' hopes, dreams, and terror" ( O, The Oprah Magazine ). It is a mesmerizing and deeply moving novel from one of America's most celebrated writers.
LC Classification Number
PS3566.H479Q54 2013
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