Ariel

Name: Ariel
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Lawrence Block
ISBN: 9781461809456

Author: Lawrence Block

Narrator: Alexandra O'Karma

Unabridged: 9 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/29/2011

Categories: Fiction, Horror, Psychological

Synopsis

Best-selling author of more than 50 books, Lawrence Block is a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master and winner of many Shamus Awards. He is widely praised for his popular Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery series. In Ariel, he has created a dark tale laced with terror. Twelve-year-old Ariel is a strange, solitary girl. Recently, Ariel and her mother have seen a ghostly figure in their house. As a result, they are both having dreams that are becoming stranger, yet more and more real. What is the link between this frightening manifestation and the house? Lawrence Block carefully blurs the boundaries between fear and obsession as he steadily increases the suspense. As Ariel's family moves toward tragedy, so does the reader's certainty that a terrible force is at work.

About Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block is an award-winning, internationally renowned bestselling author. His prolific career spans over one hundred books, including four bestselling series as well as dozens of short stories, articles, and books on writing. Block lives in New York City with his wife, Lynne.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tristan

Lawrence Block has few fans more devoted than myself (in my humble opinion). This comparatively early work (1980) has much to recommend it, particularly for those of us who feasted upon The Turning of the Screw or The House Next Door. This book is laden with long, introspective, what-if contemplatio......more

Goodreads review by Astraea

I'll repeat the review I gave it on Amazon (it was so long ago that you could be anonymous!, so I was "A reader"). Originally marketed as "occult horror", Ariel is neither. It's a story of the madness that lies just under the surface, and what it takes to bring it out; the need to give evil a face a......more

Goodreads review by Ralph

If you’ve read any number of Lawrence Block’s detective stories or noir crime novels, you will be unprepared for “Ariel.” It is quite unlike any of the other books he has written. In it, we have a husband and wife (David & Roberta), their teenage adopted daughter (Ariel of the title), and their son......more