- Trees, Fiction, Fantasy, Manuscripts
Sarah Crowe left Atlanta, and the remnants of a tumultuous relationship, to live alone in an old house in rural Rhode Island. Within its walls she discovers an unfinished manuscript written by the house's former tenant—a parapsychologist obsessed with the ancient oak growing on a desolate corner of the property. And as the gnarled tree takes root in her imagination, Sarah risks her health and her sanity to unearth a revelation planted centuries ago…
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Grave, earnest, intimate and contemplative.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Caitlín R. Kiernan
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 385
- Publisher
- Penguin USA, Inc., Roc
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781101105337
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Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan (born 26 May 1964) is an Irish-born American paleontologist and writer of science fiction and dark fantasy works, including 10 novels, series of comic books, and more than 250 published short stories, novellas, and vignettes. Kiernan is a two-time recipient of both the World Fantasy and Bram Stoker awards. **Source**: [Caitlín R. Kiernan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caitl%C3%ADn_R._Kiernan) on Wikipedia.
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