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The Keeper

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The Keeper

by Langan, Sarah

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London: Headline Book Publishing, 2006. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 6x4x1. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. faint spine crease, light edge wear; The rain falls ceaselessly on the town of Bedford as it braces itself for the annual floods that heralds the end of winter. But this year the sense of misery is more pervasive than ever. The Clott paper mill, the town's biggest employer, has shut and the town, already polluted by the chemicals the mill used, faces a desperate future. Liz and Susan Marley are two sisters who are poles apart. Susan, beautiful and disturbed, abused by her father and, even after he died, rejected by a mother unable to confront her own guilt, lives in squalor in the wrong part of town. She wanders silently around the town, inappropriately dressed, never speaking and letting herself be picked up by men in bars. She is the town witch, the town's guilty secret. Liz is years younger than Susan, in her last year of high school and worried about her looks, her weight, how popular she is, whether she will ever get out of Bedford and above all why her sister hates her so much. She dreams about Susan, vividly, horrifically, dreams in which Susan tries to kill her, dreams from which she awakes strangely bruised. But it turns out that everyone in Bedford dreams about Susan Marley, strange, disturbing dreams of destruction and loathing. And when Susan Marley commits suicide, betrayed by life one final petty time, her death unleashes a hail of destruction on the town of Bedford that is more terrifying than any dream.

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Some believe Bedford, Maine, is cursed. Its bloody past, endless rain, and the decay of its downtown portend a hopeless future. With the death of its paper mill, Bedford's unemployed residents soon find themselves with far too much time to dwell on thoughts of Susan Marley. Once the local beauty, she's now the local whore. Silently prowling the muddy streets, she watches eerily from the shadows, waiting for . . . something. And haunting the sleep of everyone in town with monstrous visions of violence and horror.Those who are able will leave Bedford before the darkness fully ascends. But those who are trapped here—from Susan Marley's long-suffering mother and younger sister to her guilt-ridden, alcoholic ex-lover to the destitute and faithless with nowhere else to go—will soon know the fullest and most terrible meaning of nightmare.

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Bookseller
Kayleighbug Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
057328
Title
The Keeper
Author
Langan, Sarah
Format/Binding
Mass Market Paperback
Book Condition
Used - Good
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1
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0755333713
ISBN 13
9780755333714
Publisher
Headline Book Publishing
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
2006
Size
6x4x1
Bookseller catalogs
Horror;
X weight
10 oz

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