- Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Tor Books (April 28 1994)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0812519507
- ISBN-13: 978-0812519501
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.7 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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In the late 1970s and early 1980s, T. M. Wright earned praise from critics for a series of ghost novels about isolated houses in upstate New York. A Manhattan Ghost Story, first published in 1984, moved the action to New York City. And the tale is not about a single building, but about an all-pervasive layer of reality in which the shades of the living mark their days in a listless state, until finally they fall apart. A commercial photographer gets slowly pulled, while still living, over to the "other side"--a plight that leads to a profoundly unsettling and surreal chain of events. "And if you get stuck in that other city, that other Manhattan, you find yourself getting awfully desperate and mean-spirited, the way some people are affected by too much heat or the crying of small children."
Wright's ghosts are evocatively described, with their awkward movements and stares of "quiet, studied indifference." But be forewarned that A Manhattan Ghost Story, while justly celebrated, has a couple of minor flaws: a weak love story and slipshod editing that didn't catch place names that change partway through.
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"T M Wright is a rare and blazing talent." Stephen King
"Wright convincingly proves that he understands, as few do, how to give
a scare without spilling blood all over the page." Publishers Weekly
"T M Wright is the best ghost story writer alive today." American Fantasy Magazine
--This text refers to the
Paperback
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Sluggish and Repetitive,
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This review is from: A Manhattan Ghost Story (Paperback)
First published in 1984, this effort begins but soon becomes predictable and all suspense is lost. It held an interesting premise and the ghostly parallel layer of Manhattan is compelling. However, the main character and those around him fail to drive the plot. The dead are just plainly uninteresting. What I did enjoy were the descriptions of New York and its neighborhoods of thirty years ago.
5.0 out of 5 stars
THE ORIGINAL "SIXTH SENSE" - ?,
By A Customer
This review is from: Manhattan Ghost Story (Mass Market Paperback)
Long before "The Sixth Sense" came out, this novel was contracted to be made into a major motion picture starring Sharon Stone. Along the way, the movie didn't get made, but "Sixth Sense" came out looking like a rip-off of the basic idea. Read this well-written and original book and compare.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Well-written, but loses it at the end,
By Blake Petit "Novelist, columnist & reviewer" (Ama, Louisiana United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Manhattan Ghost Story (Mass Market Paperback)
I very much enjoyed "A Manhattan Ghost Story" from the very first page. It was around page 300 that it began to lose me. The story focuses on Abner Cray, a photographer that comes to New York City to work on a book and winds up falling in love with a woman he meets in the apartment he is subletting from a friend. As he wanders the city he finds unusual things from out of a nightmare, and begins to learn that his new love may not be what he thinks.Wright has a wonderful, engaging style of writing, the sort of style that reads quickly and keeps you turning the page to see what happens next. The problem is that you still feel that way after the last page. There's no sense of conclusion to the book. You don't get a feeling of resolution for Abner, you only get a hint of resolution for Art, and subplots about the deaths of his parents, estrangement from his family and a superfluous subplot about an incestuous relationship with his cousin never go anywhere at all. At the ending you get a feeling that the writer intended the book to have an unresolved feeling, implying that's how life (and death) is, but instead I was just left unsatisfied. Wright's style is good enough to make me interested in reading some of his other works (this is the first book of his I've read), but if the second one doesn't give me a more fulfilling read than this, there probably won't be a third.
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