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Ghost

A Novel

by Alan Lightman
Christopher Price
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David is a modest man who works in a bank, lives in a rooming house, enjoys books and quiet walks by the lake. Three months after unexpectedly being fired from his job, he takes a temporary position at a mortuary. And there, sitting alone in the "slumber room" one late afternoon, he sees something that he cannot comprehend, something that no science can explain, something that will force him to question everything he believes in, including himself. After his metaphysical experience, all his relationships change—with his estranged wife, his girlfriend, his mother—and he grudgingly finds himself at the center of a bitter public controversy over the existence of the supernatural.

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  • Release date

    November 1, 2007

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780792751427
      • File size: 222193 KB
      • Duration: 07:42:54

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Reminiscent of Poe's "Tell-Tale Heart," this story begins with manic introspection. A man is trying to decide if he has really experienced a metaphysical event--or if he's going mad. An abrupt switch in point of view from the first person in the opening to third-person narration for the remainder of the story is a bit confusing as there is no pause or warning. But Christopher Price steps up to the storytelling delightfully as the listener delves into protagonist David's life after he witnesses a supernatural occurrence. Price captures the mortuary's crew with aplomb, as well as the doubting townspeople whom David has to deal with after he becomes a local oddity. Listeners who enjoy a modern ghost story will enjoy this. D.L.M. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 9, 2007
      In this smartly paced novel from the author of Einstein’s Dreams
      , a divorced, former banker witnesses a supernatural event, inspiring him to continue the “search for something” that has hovered in the back of his mind throughout his life. A promising, handsome student in his younger years, middle-aged David struggles to restore order to his life and relationships after being sacked from his middling bank job. The search leads him to the local funeral home, where he takes a job as an apprentice among a cast less hip than the Six Feet Under
      crew, but compelling in a quieter way—the director, Martin, is a fatherly figure whose allegiance to his inherited profession rules an existence otherwise restricted by severe agoraphobia. After David has a vision he “can’t describe in words” in the home’s “slumber room,” he gets agitated to the point where he is compelled to confess to a loose-lipped friend. Soon, David’s vision becomes a local media event, with unwanted consequences. Familiar questions about the existence of God, life after death and the fluidity of time arise, and the cast doesn’t get the detail it deserves. But the momentum that builds alongside David’s ensuing psychological turmoil is enough to carry the story.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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