07242cam a2200673 4500 284333600 TxAuBib 20170207120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780385538923 0385538928 B01FPGY5TK Amazon 1f2655a9-566b-447c-b880-aaa0ad982f4d OverDrive (Reserve ID) 236716 2854734 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Bohjalian, Christopher A. The Sleepwalker [Libby eBook] : A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2017. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 639kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 639kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. the light in the ruins. the sandcastle girls. missing persons. Sleep disorders. womens fiction. sleepwalking. family novel. parasomnia. detective. Daughters. Thriller. Midwives. sisters. Fiction. mystery. Vermont. novel. sex. HTML:From the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest Room comes a spine-tingling novel of lies, loss, and buried desire—the mesmerizing story of a wife and mother who vanishes from her bed late one night. When Annalee Ahlberg goes missing, her children fear the worst. Annalee is a sleepwalker whose affliction manifests in ways both bizarre and devastating. Once, she merely destroyed the hydrangeas in front of her Vermont home. More terrifying was the night her older daughter, Lianna, pulled her back from the precipice of the Gale River bridge. The morning of Annalee's disappearance, a search party combs the nearby woods. Annalee's husband, Warren, flies home from a business trip. Lianna is questioned by a young, hazel-eyed detective. And her little sister, Paige, takes to swimming the Gale to look for clues. When the police discover a small swatch of fabric, a nightshirt, ripped and hanging from a tree branch, it seems certain Annalee is dead, but Gavin Rikert, the hazel-eyed detective, continues to call, continues to stop by the Ahlbergs' Victorian home. As Lianna peels back the layers of mystery surrounding Annalee's disappearance, she finds herself drawn to Gavin, but she must ask herself: Why does the detective know so much about her mother? Why did Annalee leave her bed only when her father was away? And if she really died while sleepwalking, where was the body? Conjuring the strange and mysterious world of parasomnia, a place somewhere between dreaming and wakefulness, The Sleepwalker is a masterful novel from one of our most treasured storytellers. HTML:November 14, 2016 Set in Vermont in 2000, this stylish fusion of mystery and domestic thriller from Bohjalian (The Guest Room) explores the aftermath of the inexplicable disappearance of a woman prone to sleepwalking. Annalee Ahlberg’s two daughters, 21-year-old Lianna and 12-year-old Paige, attempt to find some kind of closure after their beloved mother—who has experienced bizarre sleepwalking episodes in the past—vanishes from her home in the middle of the night. The mystery deepens when Lianna and a detective, who may have had an intimate relationship with Annalee, become emotionally connected. Powered by brilliantly rendered characters, an intriguing topic (parasomnia), and a darkly lyrical narrative that captures the melancholic tone of autumn in New England perfectly (red maples in their “death throes”), this novel has only one weak point—its highly improbable conclusion, which may leave readers unsatisfied. 10-city author tour. Agent: Jane Gelfman, Gelfman Schneider/ICM Partners.. Publisher's Weekly. HTML:"Great mystery writers, like great magicians, have the ability to hide the truth that's right before your eyes. Best-selling novelist Chris Bohjalian is at the full power of his literary legerdemain in his newest book, The Sleepwalker... Bohjalian teases and tantalizes the reader... Masterful plotting evokes a magician who distracts his audience to look this way, not that way. The ending will have the reader rereading for missed clues. The Sleepwalker is Bohjalian at his best: a creepily compelling topic and an illusionist's skill at tightening the tension. This is a novel worth losing sleep over.". HTML:Patty Rhule, USA Today. "One night when her professor husband is out of town, and while her teenage daughters sleep in their rooms, Annalee Ahlberg walks out her front door and heads toward the river. She is never seen again... Bohjalian raises essential questions of identity and heredity, sexuality and desire, bringing the Ahlberg family conundrum into focus with a didn't-see-that-one-coming powerhouse ending.". HTML:Carol Haggas, Booklist. "This stylish fusion of mystery and domestic thriller from Bohjalian explores the aftermath of the inexplicable disappearance of a woman prone to sleepwalking... Powered by brilliantly rendered characters, an intriguing topic (parasomnia), and a darkly lyrical narrative that captures the melancholic tone of autumn in New England perfectly.". HTML:Publishers Weekly. HTML:"Sex, secrets and the mysteries of sleep: These are the provocative ingredients in Chris Bohjalian's spooky thriller The Sleepwalker. It's a dark, Hitchcockian novel... Trust me, you will not be able to stop thinking about it days after you finish reading this book.". HTML:Carol Memmott, The Washington Post. HTML:"The Sleepwalker is more than a mystery: it's a beautiful, wrenching novel of family secrets and the enigmas that link husbands and wives and lovers. And then that ending? Devastating and perfect.". Harlan Coben. "It takes unexpected answers to solve this mystery. Bohjalian's latest will captivate readers who crave an edge-of-your-seat page-turner they can't put down.". HTML:Susan Carr, Library Journal (Starred Review.) "Bohjalian... never writes the same book twice... His new novel is suspense with a twist.". HTML:Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal. Suspense. Thriller. Fiction. Romance. Media Type: eBook. 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