{"product_id":"a-ghost-s-story-9781783780365b","title":"A Ghost's Story","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eThroughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, séances and spiritualist meetings grew in popularity. One \"ghost\" appeared more than any other: the Katie King spirit.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eBlending historical fact and fiction, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eA Ghost's Story\u003c\/span\u003e presents the mysterious spirit writings and biographical outpourings of Katie King, this famous and enigmatic spirit celebrity. A profound and curious consciousness guided into this realm by the faith of true believers, or the cheap trickery of parlor cheats and exploitative swindlers? Katie King is both, and more. This is the tale of a ghost's quest to understand human faith, loss, and passion. It is also the tale of a contemporary scholar desperate to understand the allure of the spirit world, journeying with Katie from the candle-lit drawing rooms of Victorian London to the Imperial Palaces of Tsars; from the shadiest of gimmicks and tricks, to the most poignant sincerity of the deathbed wish.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eA Ghost's Story \u003c\/span\u003efeatures a narrator like no other, moving in and out of time and space, obstreperous, witty, and profoundly honest. Above all, this inventive novel is an examination of belief, and a spectacular insight into what lies on the other side.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\"At turns spooky and comical, Gibb deftly weaves fact with fiction so that each page shimmers ectoplasmically with uncertainty.\"—\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eIrish Mail\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Compelling...add in a supporting cast of rogues, charlatans and true believers and the theatrical trappings of seances and you are pitched in a world that is rich and strange.\"—\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eSunday Express\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\"A fascinating story of what it might be like to be a ghost, and the longing in us that makes us want them to exist.\"—\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eGlasgow Herald\u003c\/span\u003e, \"Books of the Year\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Granta Books","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42824697413712,"sku":"9781783780365B","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781783780365-l.jpg?v=1785897675","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/fr\/products\/a-ghost-s-story-9781783780365b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}