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Four linked stories chronicle madness, obsession, and creation through the ages. Beginning with the cave-drawings of a young girl on the brink of creating the earliest form of writing, Sedgwick traverses history, plunging into the seventeenth century witch hunts and a 1920s insane asylum where a mad poet's obsession with spirals seems to be about to unhinge the world of the doctor trying to save him. Sedgwick moves beyond the boundaries of historical fiction and into the future in the book's final section, set upon a spaceship voyaging to settle another world for the first time
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The Ghosts of Heaven, Marcus Sedgwick
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- Released
- 2016
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- Title
- The Ghosts of Heaven
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Marcus Sedgwick
- Publisher
- Square Fish
- Released
- 2016
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN10
- 1250073677
- ISBN13
- 9781250073679
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Young Adult Fantasy
- Rating
- 3.7 out of 5
- Description
- Four linked stories chronicle madness, obsession, and creation through the ages. Beginning with the cave-drawings of a young girl on the brink of creating the earliest form of writing, Sedgwick traverses history, plunging into the seventeenth century witch hunts and a 1920s insane asylum where a mad poet's obsession with spirals seems to be about to unhinge the world of the doctor trying to save him. Sedgwick moves beyond the boundaries of historical fiction and into the future in the book's final section, set upon a spaceship voyaging to settle another world for the first time