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PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-101400060923

ISBN-139781400060924

eBay Product ID (ePID)2873606

Product Key Features

Book TitleLost Boy, Lost Girl

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2003

TopicThrillers / Suspense, General

GenreFiction

AuthorPeter Straub

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight19.5 Oz

Item Length9.6 in

Item Width6.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2003-046689

Dewey Edition21

ReviewsPraise for Peter Straub "The scariest book I've ever read . . . It crawls under your skin and into your dreams." -Chicago Sun-Times, on Ghost Story "Brilliantly written . . . an inspired thriller." -The Washington Post, on Koko "Disturbing . . . satisfying . . . a blood-stained tapestry of stunning emotional power." -San Francisco Chronicle, on The Throat

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of "Black House" and "Mr. X" springs a groundbreaking story of the persistence of evil, told with tantalizing ambiguity and structural audacity., A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son-beautiful, troubled fifteen-year-old Mark Underhill-vanishes from the face of the earth. To his uncle, horror novelist Timothy Underhill, Mark's inexplicable absence feels like a second death. After his sister-in-law's funeral, Tim searches his hometown of Millhaven for clues that might help him unravel this mystery of death and disappearance. He soon learns that a pedophilic murderer is on the loose in the vicinity, and that shortly before his mother's suicide Mark had become obsessed with an abandoned house where he imagined the killer might have taken refuge. No mere empty building, the house on Michigan Street whispers from attic to basement with the echoes of a long-hidden true-life horror story, and Tim Underhill comes to fear that in investigating its unspeakable history, Mark stumbled across its last and greatest secret: a ghostly lost girl who may have coaxed the needy, suggestible boy into her mysterious domain. With lost boy lost girl, Peter Straub affirms once again that he is the master of literary horror.

LC Classification NumberPS3569.T6914L67 2003