- Product Type: Original Print Ad; Grayscale
- Grade: Near Mint / Very Fine
- Dimensions: Approximately 10.5 x 14 inches; 27 x 36 cm
- Authentication: Dual Serial-Numbered Certificates of Authenticity w/ Full Provenance
- Packaged in custom sleeve w/ archival black board (great for display, gift-giving, and preservation)
Dorothy Parker meets Agatha Christie.
"Chick-lit noir with a side of funny." - Ruth Harris, NYT best-selling author of "Modern Women" and "Husbands and Lovers".
"Chick-lit for brunettes." - Saffina Desforges, Kindle UK best-selling author of "Sugar & Spice" and the "Rose Red" crime thriller series.
The writers’ conference is a mostly American phenomenon. It’s usually a combination of bucolic holiday and intensive writing course, where aspiring writers can hone their craft, learn the ins and outs of the publishing busi! ness and network with other writers at all stages of their careers.
Ghostwriters In The Sky is set at one such conferenceâ€"held at a picturesque former “dude ranch†in California’s idyllic wine-and-cattle country north of Los Angelesâ€"an area that has long been a retreat for Hollywood celebrities, from President Ronald Reagan to pop star Michael Jackson.
No pop-stars or presidents here, but enough mystery and bizarre goings-on to make Michael Jackson's life look tame.
Grab yourself a glass of wine, a box of chocolates and a comfy sofa, and enjoy.
Dorothy Parker meets Agatha Christie.
"Chick-lit noir with a side of funny." - Ruth Harris, NYT best-selling author of "Modern Women" and "Husbands and Lovers".
"Chick-lit for brunettes." - Saffina Desforges, Kindle UK best-selling author of "Sugar & Spice" and the "Rose Red" crime thriller series.
The writers’ conference is a mostly Ameri! can phenomenon. It’s usually a combination of bucolic holida! y and in tensive writing course, where aspiring writers can hone their craft, learn the ins and outs of the publishing business and network with other writers at all stages of their careers.
Ghostwriters In The Sky is set at one such conferenceâ€"held at a picturesque former “dude ranch†in California’s idyllic wine-and-cattle country north of Los Angelesâ€"an area that has long been a retreat for Hollywood celebrities, from President Ronald Reagan to pop star Michael Jackson.
No pop-stars or presidents here, but enough mystery and bizarre goings-on to make Michael Jackson's life look tame.
Grab yourself a glass of wine, a box of chocolates and a comfy sofa, and enjoy.
When a gifted ghostwriter (Ewan McGregor) is hired to write the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan), he quickly finds himself trapped in a web of political and sexual intrigue. Lang is implicated in a scandal over his administration's harsh ! tactics, and as the ghostwriter digs into the politician's past, he discovers secrets that threaten to jeopardize international relations forever. Co-starring Olivia Williams and Kim Cattrall, it is a taut and shocking thriller from acclaimed director Roman Polanski (The Pianist).
DVD Features;
An Interview with Roman Polanski,
The Ghost Writer: Fiction or Reality?,
The Cast of The Ghost WriterOscar-winning director Roman Polanksi (
The Pianist) teams up with author-screenwriter Robert Harris (
Enigma) for this twisty political thriller. Ewan McGregor plays an unnamed ghostwriter who signs on to pen the memoirs of former British prime minister Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan). The money is good, but there's a catch: the ghost's predecessor perished under mysterious circumstances (his body washed up on the shore in an apparent suicide). Being the adventurous sort, the ghost puts that information aside and travels to Lang's austere compound on Martha's V! ineyard, where he meets Lang's efficient personal secretary, A! melia (K im Cattrall, good but for an inconsistent accent), and acerbic wife, Ruth (
An Education's Olivia Williams). Just as he's wading through Lang's dull text, the PM's ex-cabinet minister accuses him of handing over suspected terrorists to the CIA, fully aware that torture would be on the agenda. The next thing the ghost knows, he's working for a possible war criminal, and the deeper he digs, the more convinced he becomes that Lang is lying about his past. After exchanging a few words with a sharp-eyed old man (Eli Wallach) and a tight-lipped professor (Tom Wilkinson), he realizes his life may also be at risk. Then, while Lang hits the road to proclaim his innocence, the ghost gets to know Ruth better--
much better. If the conclusion feels a little glib, Polanksi tightens the screws with skill, McGregor enjoys his best role in years, and Williams proves she's fully prepared to carry a movie of her own.
--Kathleen C. FennessyIn this tantalizing tale of Vic! torian ghost stories and family secrets, timid, solitary librarian Gerard Freeman lives for just two things: his elusive pen pal Alice and a story he found hidden in his mother's drawer years ago. Written by his great-grandmother Viola, it hints at his mother's role in a sinister crime. As he discovers more of Viola's chilling tales, he realizes that they might hold the key to finding Alice and unveiling his family's mystery-or will they bring him the untimely death they seem to foretell?
Harwood's astonishing, assured debut shows us just how dangerous family skeletons-and stories-can be.
The Cornish prayer: "From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggety beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!" is an appropriate invocation when reading
The Ghost Writer, John Harwood’s debut novel. It is a rousing good ghost story, with many twists and turns, rather like taking apart a Russian matryoshka nesting doll.
! Gerard Freeman, at age ten, sneaks into his mother's room ! and unlo cks a secret drawer, only to find a picture of a woman he has never seen before, but one that he will find again and again. His mother discovers him and gives him the beating of his life. Why this excessive reaction? She is a worried, paranoid, thin, and fretful type with an "anxious, haunted look." By tale's end, we know why.
Phyllis Freeman, Gerard's mother, was happiest when speaking fondly of Staplefield, her childhood home, where there were things they "didn’t have in Mawson [Australia], chaffinches and mayflies and foxgloves and hawthorn, coopers and farriers and old Mr. Bartholomew who delivered fresh milk and eggs to their house with his horse and cart." It's the sort of childhood idyll that the timid and lonely Gerard believes in and longs for. He strikes up a correspondence with an English "penfriend," Alice Jessel, when he is 13 and a half, living in a desolate place with a frantic mother and a silent father. She is his age, her parents were killed in ! an accident and she has been crippled by it. She now lives in an institution, whose grounds she describes as much the way Staplefield looked. They go through young adulthood together, in letters only, thousands of miles apart, eventuallydeclaring their love for one another.
Interwoven with the narrative of Alice and Gerard's letters are real ghost stories, the creation of Gerard's great-grandmother, Viola. At first, they seem to be scary Victorian tales of the supernatural. Then, we see that they have a spooky way of mirroring, or preceding, events in real life, off the page. Gerard comes upon them, one by one, in mysterious ways, but clearly something, or someone, is leading him. The stories seem to implicate his mother in some nefarious goings-on, but the truth is far worse than Gerard imagines.
Any more would be telling too much. Turn on all the lights in the house when you settle down with this one, and plan to spend a long time reading because you will b! e lost in the story immediately. --Valerie Ryan
In ! this tan talizing tale of Victorian ghost stories and family secrets, timid, solitary librarian Gerard Freeman lives for just two things: his elusive pen pal Alice and a story he found hidden in his mother's drawer years ago. Written by his great-grandmother Viola, it hints at his mother's role in a sinister crime. As he discovers more of Viola's chilling tales, he realizes that they might hold the key to finding Alice and unveiling his family's mystery-or will they bring him the untimely death they seem to foretell?
Harwood's astonishing, assured debut shows us just how dangerous family skeletons-and stories-can be.
Raven presents on great value Double CD (and for the first time on CD ever in their entirety), three classic albums by GARLAND JEFFREYS: Ghost Writer (1977), One-Eyed Jack (1978) and American Boy & Girl (1979) originally recorded for A&M Re-cords. The enigmatic and inspirational singer / songwriter Jeffreys was Brooklyn-born and worked the nightcl! ubs of Manhattan dur-ing the late-60s and early-70s and was an associate of Lou Reed and John Cale. His debut album for Atlantic featured gritty tales of New York street life while his most famous song 'Wild in the Streets' became a staple of FM radio. Jeffrey's unique blend of rock 'n' soul, blues and reggae earned him a loyal following. He signed to A&M records in 1977 and issued these three albums at the height of his acclaim. Ghost Writer is considered to be his masterpiece, a genuinely literate and ambitious work of enduring worth. AllMusic Guide described it as 'an album of striking urban songs that are both confessional and confrontational'. Highlights include 'I May Not Be Your Kind' (a bittersweet tale of interracial romance), 'New York Skyline', 'Spanish Town' and 'Wild in the Streets'. Jeffreys followed this with two more albums of some-times reflective, sometimes aggressive but always passionate urban tales, One-Eyed Jack (1978) and American Boy & Girl (1979). H! e continued to record throughout the 1980s and 1990s. With 30 ! tracks, 140 minutes of superb quality audio, detailed liner notes and color booklet this is an essential collection for the Classic Rock music enthusiast.Each mystery takes about 15 minutes to solve. Grab your official casebook and follow three steps:survery the scene of the crime-you've got 60 seconds to uncover all the clues you can;unscramble letters to reveal another clue; 3 devious clues contain the key words you'll need! For ages 8 to 12, 2 to 4 players or you can play solo!This is an original 1937 black and white print ad for the advertising agency of Fuller & Smith & Ross, Inc.
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