Cloud

Name: Cloud
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Eric McCormack
ISBN: 9781501949890

Author: Eric McCormack

Narrator: Robert Ian Mackenzie

Unabridged: 13 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/23/2017

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

"Why, when we take such care to disguise our true selves from others, would we expect them to be an open book to us?" Harry Steen, a businessman travelling in Mexico, ducks into an old bookstore to escape a frightening deluge. Inside, he makes a serendipitous discovery: a mid-nineteenth-century account of a sinister storm cloud that plagued an isolated Scottish village and caused many gruesome and unexplainable deaths. Harry knows the village well; he travelled there as a young man to take up a teaching post following the death of his parents. It was there that he met the woman whose love and betrayal have haunted him every day since. Presented with this astonishing record, Harry resolves to seek out the ghosts of his past and return to the very place where he encountered the fathomless depths of his own heart. With Cloud, critically acclaimed Canadian author Eric McCormack has written a masterpiece of literary Gothicism, a gripping, darkly imagined story about the nature of love in a world where menace hovers at every turn.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Barry

As Eric McCormack himself says towards the end of his delightful new book, "Book lovers naturally do feel a kind of possessiveness and protectiveness in how they relate to certain authors and books, as though they were pets." Well, not pets maybe but certainly old friends. McCormack is one of those w......more

Goodreads review by William

I’m having the hardest time reviewing this book and I know why. I want to categorize it. I’ve all kinds of terms rattling around in my head as I try to write about it but ultimately what I end up with is just thinking out loud on paper. Everything centres on the narrator of Cloud and this is as it sh......more

Goodreads review by Steve

I really wanted to enjoy this book, and for all intents and purposes I should have, but I found Cloud disappointing. After reading, and absolutely loving, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women and The Dutch Wife by Eric McCormack I jumped right into this book......more

Goodreads review by Wendy

The author recycles some material from previous books, but this is not a criticism; in fact it works well, making the reader a part of the story, in the same way that when reading the sequel to a favourite book, you smile when a character alludes to something that happened in the previous volume. Ha......more