Sleep, Pale Sister (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780060787110)

Before the sweet delight of Chocolat, before the heady concoction that is Blackberry Wine, and before the tart pleasures of Five Quarters of the Orange, bestselling author Joanne Harris wrote Sleep, Pale Sister -- a gothic tourde-force that recalls the powerfully dark sensibility of her novel Holy Fools.

Originally published in 1994 -- and never before available in the United States -- Sleep, Pale Sister is a hypnotically atmospheric story set in nineteenth century London. When puritanical artist Henry Chester sees delicate child beauty Effie, he makes her his favorite model and, before long, his bride. But Henry, volatile and repressed, is in love with an ideal. Passive, docile, and asexual, the woman he projects onto Effie is far from the woman she really is. And when Effie begins to discover the murderous depths of Henry's hypocrisy, her latent passion will rise to the surface.

Sleep, Pale Sister combines the ethereal beauty of a Pre-Raphaelite painting with a chilling high gothic tale and is a testament to Harris's brimming cornucopia of talents.

This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

Author: Joanne Harris
ISBN-10: 0060787112
ISBN-13: 9780060787110
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Language: English
Published: 08/30/2005
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.34w x 1.01d

Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 09/01/2005 pg. 59
Booklist 09/01/2005 pg. 63
Library Journal 09/15/2005 pg. 55