The Turning

Name: The Turning
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Francine Prose
ISBN: 9780062201782

Author: Francine Prose

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne, Grover Gardner, Amy Rubinate

Unabridged: 8 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 09/25/2012

Categories: Children's Fiction, Horror Stories, Children's Social Themes

Synopsis

A dark house.
An isolated island.
Strange dreams
and even stranger
visions . . . Jack is spending the summer on a private island far from modern conveniences. No Wi-Fi, no cell service, no one else on the island but a housekeeper and the two very peculiar children in his care. The first time Jack sees the huge black mansion atop a windswept hill, he senses something cold, something more sinister than even the dark house itself.Soon, he feels terribly isolated and alone. Yet he is not alone. The house has visitors—peering in the windows, staring from across the shore. But why doesn't anyone else see them . . . and what do they want? As secrets are revealed and darker truths surface, Jack desperately struggles to maintain a grip on reality. He knows what he sees, and he isn't crazy. . . . Or is he?From nationally acclaimed author Francine Prose comes a mind-bending story that will leave you realizing how subtle the lines that separate reality, imagination, and insanity really are.

About Francine Prose

Francine Prose is the author of twenty-two works of fiction including the highly acclaimed The Vixen; Mister Monkey; the New York Times bestseller Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932; A Changed Man, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her works of nonfiction include the highly praised Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, and the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, which has become a classic. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright, a Director’s Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, Prose is a former president of PEN American Center, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.

Reviews

Goodreads review by karen

"It's cold in here," she said. "I know. I'm freezing," I said. "But you're sick," she said. "I'm just dead." "You're dead?" I said. "You already knew that," she said. "I am seriously sick," I said. "Is this really happening?" "This is really happening," she said. Once she said that, a lot of things seemed......more

Goodreads review by Melissa

About a month ago Kayla from BookandLala did a video of the lowest rated books on her shelves and whether Goodreads rating would also be her rating or would she give it a higher rating. I decided to try that myself. When I first purchased this book, I didn't bother checking out the Goodreads rating,......more