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Built on the Upper West Side, the elegant Breviary claims a regal history. But despite 14B's astonishingly low rental price, the recent tragedy within its walls has frightened away all potential tenants . . . except for Audrey Lucas. No stranger to tragedy at thirty-two -- a survivor of a fatherless childhood and a mother's hopeless dementia -- Audrey is obsessively determined to make her own way in a city that often strangles the weak. But is it something otherworldly or Audrey's own increasing instability that's to blame for the dark visions that haunt her . . . and for the voice that demands that she build a door? A door it would be true madness to open . . .… (mais)
El elegante edificio del Breviary, construido en el Upper West Side, es un pedazo de la historia, pero a pesar del bajo precio del alquiler del apartamento 14B, la tragedia ocurrida en su interior ha ahuyentado a todos los posibles inquilinos…, excepto a Audrey Lucas. A los treinta y dos años, y no ajena a la tragedia, con una infancia marcada por la muerte de su padre y los problemas mentales de su madre, Audrey está decidida a hacerse un hueco en una ciudad que a menudo rechaza a los débiles. Sin embargo, se siente atormentada por unas oscuras visiones y por una voz que le exige que construya una puerta. Una puerta que sería una auténtica locura abrir…
You know when you find a book and you read the blurb on it and you think: "that sounds interesting"...and then the book is so awful to read that somewhere in the book you just give up? This is that kind of book... ( )
You know when you find a book and you read the blurb on it and you think: "that sounds interesting"...and then the book is so awful to read that somewhere in the book you just give up? This is that kind of book... ( )
More Lovecraftian terror than long-fused Jackson (or King) horror. It is a compliment to the book that, while it was hard to put down, it was a relief when it ended. ( )
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Then she goes pale, and her body shrivels up. her glance is sideways and her teeth are black; her nipples drop with poisonous green vile, and venom from her dinner coats her tongue; she only smiles at the sight of another's grief, nor does she know, disturbed by wakeful cares, the benefits of slumber; when she beholds another's joy, she falls into decay, and rips down only to be ripped apart, herself the punishment for being her. -Ovid, on Envy, Metamorphoses
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
For my parents, good eggs, carrying on the good fight.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Modern haunted-house stories build on a rich tradition. While writing Audrey's Door, I was particularly inspired by Shirley Jackson's Haunting of Hill House, Stephen King's The Shining, Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby, Roland Topor's The Tenant, the films of Roman Polanski, and Edward Rob Ellis' The Epic of New York City: A Narrative History. -Preface
Delight! At dusk on October 20th, the doors to Manhattan's newest luxury apartment build, the Breviary, opened at last. -Chapter One
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Forgive my sentimentality, but without consequences to our actions, there is no love. And without love, man has no echo or memory. He can never be immortal or transcend his own coil. He returns to the slop with the swine. -page 55
Easy gratification has stunted our development and rendered us eternal adolescents. We find the old and sick distasteful, and so sequester them from our sight. In their absence, we’ve become so accustomed to having our way that we cannot even perceive our own deaths. -page 279
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
And though they were both awed and even frightened by the audacity of the American Airlines 767 as it lifted off into the sky and began to soar, they trusted that it would land safely in New York, where together, they would fill the holes they found there with something better than flowers.
Built on the Upper West Side, the elegant Breviary claims a regal history. But despite 14B's astonishingly low rental price, the recent tragedy within its walls has frightened away all potential tenants . . . except for Audrey Lucas. No stranger to tragedy at thirty-two -- a survivor of a fatherless childhood and a mother's hopeless dementia -- Audrey is obsessively determined to make her own way in a city that often strangles the weak. But is it something otherworldly or Audrey's own increasing instability that's to blame for the dark visions that haunt her . . . and for the voice that demands that she build a door? A door it would be true madness to open . . .
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A los treinta y dos años, y no ajena a la tragedia, con una infancia marcada por la muerte de su padre y los problemas mentales de su madre, Audrey está decidida a hacerse un hueco en una ciudad que a menudo rechaza a los débiles. Sin embargo, se siente atormentada por unas oscuras visiones y por una voz que le exige que construya una puerta. Una puerta que sería una auténtica locura abrir…