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Hunt, Samantha -- Homes and haunts.
Parapsychology.
Ghosts.
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The unwritten book :...
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The unwritten book : an investigation / Samantha Hunt.
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Hunt, Samantha, author.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
Subjects
Hunt, Samantha.
Hunt, Samantha -- Homes and haunts.
Parapsychology.
Ghosts.
Haunted places.
ISBN:
9780374604912 (hardcover) :
0374604916 (hardcover)
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366 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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First edition.
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"A genre-bending work of nonfiction, Samantha Hunt's The Unwritten Book explores ghosts, ghost stories, and haunting, in the broadest sense of each. What is it to be haunted, to be a ghost, to die, to live, to read? Books are ghosts; reading is communion with the dead. Alcohol is a way of communing, too, as well as a way of dying. Each chapter gathers subjects that haunt: dead people, the forest, the towering library of all those books we'll never have time to read or write. Hunt, like a mad crossword puzzler, looks for patterns and clues. Through literary criticism, history, family history, and memoir, inspired by W. G. Sebald, James Joyce, Ali Smith, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, and many others, Hunt explores motherhood, hoarding, legacies of addiction, grief, how we insulate ourselves from the past, how we misinterpret the world. Nestled within her inquiry is a very special ghost book, an incomplete manuscript about people who can fly without wings, written by her father and found in his desk just days after he died. What secret messages might his work reveal? What wisdom might she distill from its unfinished pages? Hunt conveys a vivid and grateful life, one that comes from living closer to the dead and shedding fear for wonder. The Unwritten Book revels in the randomness, connectivity, and magic of everyday existence. And at its heart is the immense weight of love"--Amazon.
"From the award-winning author of The Dark Dark, a genre-bending work of nonfiction explores the idea of haunting-writ large"--Provided by publisher.
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Keaau P/S Library
Adult Nonfiction
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Salt Lake-Moanalua Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
130 Hu
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