- phantom of the opera, romance, Fiction, Phantom of the Opera (Fictitious character)
"In this novel, Susan Kay re imagines Gaston Leroux's famous novel "The Phantom of the Opera" in greater depth and detail. "Phantom" begins with a young widow giving birth to her only child.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and nostalgic.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Susan Kay
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 466
- Publisher
- Dell Publishing, Island Books Dell Publishing, Doubleday
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780440211693
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Susan Kay was born on 1952 in Manchester, England. She worked as a primary school teacher until leaving to bring up a family, and now lives with her husband and two children in Cheshire. Her first novel was Legacy, about the life of Queen Elizabeth I and won a Georgette Heyer Historical Novel Prize and a Betty Trask Award in 1985. Her second novel was Phantom, which expands upon the history of Erik, the hideous, brilliant character from Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera, and won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association in 1991.
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