Sara Paretsky: Ghost Country (USA 1999) From the Publisher: Sara Paretsky: Ghost Country. Delta, ISBN: 0385333366 (June, 1999), 400 p., $16.00.
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Sara Paretsky: Ghost Country (UK 1998) From the Publisher: Sara Paretsky: Ghost Country. Hamish Hamilton, ISBN: 0241132630 (June, 1999), 386 p., £15.99 (?).
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Sara Paretsky: Ghost Country (USA 1998) From the Publisher: They come from different worlds and meet at a time of crisis for all of them. Luisa, a drunken diva fallen on hard times, discovers on Chicago's streets a drama greater than any she has experienced onstage. Madeleine, a homeless woman, sees the Virgin Mary's blood seeping through a concrete wall beneath a luxury hotel. Mara, a rebellious adolescent cast out by her wealthy grandfather, becomes the catalyst for a war between the haves and have-nots as she searches among society's castoffs for the mother she never knew. As the three women fight for their right to live and worship beneath the hotel, they find an ally in Hector Tammuz, an idealistic young psychiatrist risking his career to treat the homeless regardless of the cost. Tensions in the city are escalating when a mysterious woman appears during a violent storm. Erotic to some, repellent to others, she never speaks; the street people call her Starr. And as she slowly transforms their lives, miracles begin to happen in a city completely unprepared for the outcome. In this extraordinary novel, Sara Paretsky gives voice to the dispossessed, to men and women struggling to bury the ghosts of the past, fighting for their lives in a world hungry for miracles, terrified of change. A magical, unforgettable story of myth and madness, hope and revelation, Ghost Country is Sara Paretsky's most eloquent and ambitious work yet. Sara Paretsky: Ghost Country. Delacorte Press, ISBN: 0385299338 (June, 1998), 386 p., $24.95.
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