<TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>The Haunted House</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The</TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix>Haunted House</TitleWithoutPrefix>

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GCDS-9780872864603 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100973910 02 087286460X 03 9780872864603 15 9780872864603 BC <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>The Haunted House</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The</TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix>Haunted House</TitleWithoutPrefix> <TitleType>03</TitleType> <TitleText>The Haunted House </TitleText> 1 A01 Brown, Rebecca Rebecca Brown Rebecca Brown is the winner of the 2003 Washington State Book Award. Her books include: The Gifts of the Body, Excerpts From A Family Medical Dictionary, The Terrible Girls, The Dogs, Annie Oakley's Girl, and The End of Youth. She was awarded a Genius Award and grant from Seattle's weekly magazine, The Stranger. 01 eng 02 eng 201 01 Originally published in 1986, Rebecca Brown’s brilliant first novel explores the psychic repercussions of growing up in an alcoholic family, and the ways in which one woman’s past continues to inform and inhabit her life. Robin Daley’s childhood is dominated by a sense of impermanence: her father, a flamboyant, hard-drinking military pilot whom Robin both idolizes and resents, disappears as suddenly and unexpectedly as he arrives; her family is forever packing and unpacking their possessions as they move from one place to the next. Her adulthood offers an escape, a chance to find what it is she longs for--security, love, a place to call home. But strange things happen when the dark corners and locked rooms of family life are revealed, and Robin finds that her world is still haunted by her past in ways that are wildly fantastic and terribly real. “A doom-filled heart-aching first novel, flooded with meditative fantasy.” -- Kirkus Review “Thank goodness for once one can say here is a real new voice—ripe and imaginative, often funny, and sliding craftily between fact and wishful fantasy.” – The Sunday Times (London) “Exceptionally well written . . . Rebecca Brown takes her readers from the ordinary realities of army-base living and often gone, drinking/drunken pilot father into the unrealities of living with adults in denial, where the thin lines between daily life and reality shrink and disappear.” -- Carol Seajay, Feminist Bookstore News Rebecca Brown is the author of Gifts of the Body, <a href="http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100701110"> The Last Time I Saw You </a>, <a href="http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100469670"> The End of Youth </a>, and <a href="http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100516310"> The Terrible Girls </a>. She lives in Seattle. 02 Rebecca Brown's novel explores how a woman's life is affected by growing up in an alcoholic family. 08 "This 1986 title follows protagonist Robin Daley and the psychological ghosts that haunt her life after growing up with an alcoholic father." —Michael Rogers Library Journal 08 "With a precise clarity of language that enables nimble psychological shifts, Rebecca Brown's The Haunted House . . . deserves the second reading that City Lights has afforded it by restoring it to print . . . The Haunted House is a triptych of mythical narratives that explore the love of father, love of mother, and love of self, tracing the ways that a person is marked by these emotional crossings." -Elizabeth Rollins Rain Taxi 04 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100973910/images/87286100973910L.gif 07 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100973910/images/87286100973910S.gif http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100973910 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 04 Seal Press 20070801 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 20070801 01 02 13.95 USD