Travelers Rest: A Novel
Autor Keith Lee Morrisen Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 mar 2017
The Addisons-Julia and Tonio, ten-year-old Dewey, and derelict Uncle Robbie-are driving home, cross-country, after collecting Robbie from yet another trip to rehab. When a terrifying blizzard strikes outside the town of Good Night, Idaho, they seek refuge in the town at the Travelers Rest, a formerly opulent but now crumbling and eerie hotel where the physical laws of the universe are bent.
Once inside the hotel, the family is separated. As Julia and Tonio drift through the maze of the hotel's spectral interiors, struggling to make sense of the building's alluring powers, Dewey ventures outward to a secret-filled diner across the street. Meanwhile, a desperate Robbie quickly succumbs to his old vices, drifting ever further from the ones who love him most. With each passing hour, dreams and memories blur, tearing a hole in the fabric of our perceived reality and leaving the Addisons in a ceaseless search for one another. At each turn a mysterious force prevents them from reuniting, until at last Julia is faced with an impossible choice. Can this mother save her family from the fate of becoming Souvenirs-those citizens trapped forever in magnetic Good Night-or, worse, from disappearing entirely?
With the fearsome intensity of a ghost story, the magical spark of a fairy tale, and the emotional depth of the finest family sagas, Keith Lee Morris takes us on a journey beyond the realm of the known. Featuring prose as dizzyingly beautiful as the mystical world Morris creates, TRAVELERS REST is both a mind-altering meditation on the nature of consciousness and a heartbreaking story of a family on the brink of survival.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316335812
ISBN-10: 0316335819
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
ISBN-10: 0316335819
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
Notă biografică
Keith
Lee
Morris
is
the
author
of
two
previous
novels,The
Greyhound
GodandThe
Dart
League
King,
a
Barnes
&
Noble
Discover
pick.
His
short
stories
have
been
published
inNew
Stories
from
the
South,
Tin
House,
A
Public
Space,
New
England
Review,
andSouthern
Review,
which
awarded
him
its
Eudora
Welty
Prize
in
fiction.
Morris
lives
in
South
Carolina,
where
he
is
a
professor
of
creative
writing
at
Clemson
University.
Recenzii
"Beautifully
written.Morris
has
an
adroit
hand
for
characterization
and
atmosphere;
the
people
feel
real....and
the
haunting
isolation
of
Good
Night
looms
and
chills
throughout
the
story."—N.K.
Jemisin,New
York
Times
Book
Review
"Thoughtful, engaging, and clearly the work of a writer who knows what he's doing....Morris's prose is very good--polished, accessible, and at times quirkily humorous....There's much to admire and enjoy inTravelers Rest.The writing is persuasive, the characters are rich, and there are moments of great emotional resonance.Should you choose to stay a while in Good Night, Idaho, then--unlike the Addisons--you won't regret it."
—Michael Marshall Smith,The Guardian
"Travelers Rest does not go in for Gothic horror shocks, presenting instead a subtle, meticulous examination of strained relationships, the effects of isolation on the mind, and the persistent hold memory has over us....The novel resembles the kind of nightmare you can't seem to wake from....It exerts a powerful hold."
—James Lovegrove,Financial Times
"Morris's third novel is just as rewarding as his short stories, brimming as it is with ghosts, dream mines, and snowy mazes...In his artful hands, the fallible and relatable characters make for good company in the punchy cabin-fever atmosphere."
—Courtney Ferguson,Portland Mercury
"It says much of Morris's skill that he's able to keep us bewitched and beguiled in this topsy-turvy world with its endless corridors, twisting stairs, and Escher-like surroundings.The novel culminates in an almost operatic grand finale where past and present meet in a satisfying conclusion."—John Clarke,The Independent
"Time and space are as fluid as water in Keith Lee Morris's labyrinthine third novel...Proustian in theme but not in form,Travelers Restis the definition of dreamlike prose. Morris's writing is clean and cold as snow. The pages drift by just as effortlessly, lulling you into a quiet cocoon that you realize, too late, is actually something much more sinister."
—Adam Morgan,BookPage
"It won't take long--a page, maybe two--before you feel wondrously disquieted by Keith Lee Morris'sTravelers Rest.The novel traps its characters in the town of Good Night, Idaho, and the reader in its shaken snow globe of a world. The language dazzles and the circumstances chill and put this story in the good company of Stephen King'sThe Shining, Shirley Jackson'sThe Haunting of Hill House, and David Lynch'sTwin Peaks.This is a breakout book that will earn Morris the wide readership he richly deserves."
—Benjamin Percy,author of The Dead Lands and Red Moon
"Echoing the fantastic work of Shirley Jackson and Stephen King,Travelers Restis both fiercely gripping and deeply unsettling, a perfect mixture of horror and fairy tale held together by Keith Lee Morris's unique ability to look beyond the imposing hotel and take us inside the hearts and minds of this trapped family, a feat that makes this story all the more frightening and moving.This is a novel that pulls you in immediately and refuses to let you go."—Kevin Wilson,author of the New York Times bestseller The Family Fang
"Keith Lee Morris knows what fiction is made for: inTravelers Resthe creates an intriguing world, poses big questions, and gives us sentences that by themselves are worth the read. What happens, he asks, when the person who goes missing is yourself? And you're lost not only in space, but also in time. And the people you love most are counting on you to save them because they are missing, too.Morris invites us to lose ourselves in his stunning new novel and find out."—Charlotte Rogan,author of the New York Times bestseller The Lifeboat
"Expertly refurbishing an old structure, this haunted-hotel novel generates some genuine chills . . .Morris handles the spooky materials deftly, but his writing is what makes the story really scary: quiet and languorous, sweeping steadily and inexorably along like a curtain of drifting snow identified too late as an avalanche."—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
"InTravelers Rest, Keith Lee Morris (Call It What You Want) strikes the perfect balance between the real and the fantastical, resulting in a novel whose mystery is as disquieting as it is mind-bending....Morris excellently builds the slow-burning mystery of the hotel's past in a way that will leave readers lulled into the strangeness ofTravelers Restjust as they are discomfited by the eeriness of it all. This quietly unsettling novel combines past and present, dreams and reality, into one strange hotel mystery."—Shelf Awareness
"Alice in WonderlandmeetsThe Shiningwhen four travelers are stranded in Good Night, Idaho, during a freak blizzard . . . [Travelers Rest] proves itselfweighty, suspenseful, and even wistful. . . The lasting impact [of Good Night] on the characters is rather poignant."—Kirkus
Praise forKeith Lee Morris
"Sign me up as a member of the Keith Lee Morris fan club. His characters are as real, fallible, and surprising as anyone I've ever met, and his novel has all the textures of real life: precarious, tender, and utterly engrossing."—Kelly Link, author of Magic for Beginners
"Morris is heir to the Richard Ford ofRock Springs; he has that rare gift of writing truthfully about people we know and care for."—The Believer
"A compelling read."
—The Kansas City Star
"Thoughtful, engaging, and clearly the work of a writer who knows what he's doing....Morris's prose is very good--polished, accessible, and at times quirkily humorous....There's much to admire and enjoy inTravelers Rest.The writing is persuasive, the characters are rich, and there are moments of great emotional resonance.Should you choose to stay a while in Good Night, Idaho, then--unlike the Addisons--you won't regret it."
—Michael Marshall Smith,The Guardian
"Travelers Rest does not go in for Gothic horror shocks, presenting instead a subtle, meticulous examination of strained relationships, the effects of isolation on the mind, and the persistent hold memory has over us....The novel resembles the kind of nightmare you can't seem to wake from....It exerts a powerful hold."
—James Lovegrove,Financial Times
"Morris's third novel is just as rewarding as his short stories, brimming as it is with ghosts, dream mines, and snowy mazes...In his artful hands, the fallible and relatable characters make for good company in the punchy cabin-fever atmosphere."
—Courtney Ferguson,Portland Mercury
"It says much of Morris's skill that he's able to keep us bewitched and beguiled in this topsy-turvy world with its endless corridors, twisting stairs, and Escher-like surroundings.The novel culminates in an almost operatic grand finale where past and present meet in a satisfying conclusion."—John Clarke,The Independent
"Time and space are as fluid as water in Keith Lee Morris's labyrinthine third novel...Proustian in theme but not in form,Travelers Restis the definition of dreamlike prose. Morris's writing is clean and cold as snow. The pages drift by just as effortlessly, lulling you into a quiet cocoon that you realize, too late, is actually something much more sinister."
—Adam Morgan,BookPage
"It won't take long--a page, maybe two--before you feel wondrously disquieted by Keith Lee Morris'sTravelers Rest.The novel traps its characters in the town of Good Night, Idaho, and the reader in its shaken snow globe of a world. The language dazzles and the circumstances chill and put this story in the good company of Stephen King'sThe Shining, Shirley Jackson'sThe Haunting of Hill House, and David Lynch'sTwin Peaks.This is a breakout book that will earn Morris the wide readership he richly deserves."
—Benjamin Percy,author of The Dead Lands and Red Moon
"Echoing the fantastic work of Shirley Jackson and Stephen King,Travelers Restis both fiercely gripping and deeply unsettling, a perfect mixture of horror and fairy tale held together by Keith Lee Morris's unique ability to look beyond the imposing hotel and take us inside the hearts and minds of this trapped family, a feat that makes this story all the more frightening and moving.This is a novel that pulls you in immediately and refuses to let you go."—Kevin Wilson,author of the New York Times bestseller The Family Fang
"Keith Lee Morris knows what fiction is made for: inTravelers Resthe creates an intriguing world, poses big questions, and gives us sentences that by themselves are worth the read. What happens, he asks, when the person who goes missing is yourself? And you're lost not only in space, but also in time. And the people you love most are counting on you to save them because they are missing, too.Morris invites us to lose ourselves in his stunning new novel and find out."—Charlotte Rogan,author of the New York Times bestseller The Lifeboat
"Expertly refurbishing an old structure, this haunted-hotel novel generates some genuine chills . . .Morris handles the spooky materials deftly, but his writing is what makes the story really scary: quiet and languorous, sweeping steadily and inexorably along like a curtain of drifting snow identified too late as an avalanche."—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
"InTravelers Rest, Keith Lee Morris (Call It What You Want) strikes the perfect balance between the real and the fantastical, resulting in a novel whose mystery is as disquieting as it is mind-bending....Morris excellently builds the slow-burning mystery of the hotel's past in a way that will leave readers lulled into the strangeness ofTravelers Restjust as they are discomfited by the eeriness of it all. This quietly unsettling novel combines past and present, dreams and reality, into one strange hotel mystery."—Shelf Awareness
"Alice in WonderlandmeetsThe Shiningwhen four travelers are stranded in Good Night, Idaho, during a freak blizzard . . . [Travelers Rest] proves itselfweighty, suspenseful, and even wistful. . . The lasting impact [of Good Night] on the characters is rather poignant."—Kirkus
Praise forKeith Lee Morris
"Sign me up as a member of the Keith Lee Morris fan club. His characters are as real, fallible, and surprising as anyone I've ever met, and his novel has all the textures of real life: precarious, tender, and utterly engrossing."—Kelly Link, author of Magic for Beginners
"Morris is heir to the Richard Ford ofRock Springs; he has that rare gift of writing truthfully about people we know and care for."—The Believer
"A compelling read."
—The Kansas City Star