title: Ghostwriter: A Novel
author:  Travis Thrasher 
description: This scary page-turner by Thrasher (<i>Isolation</i>) features a Stephen Kinglike author of bestselling horror novels who, paralyzed by writer's block and hard hit by the recent death of his wife, passes off writing sent by a fan as his own. Said fan gets upset, and all hell breaks loose. There's a deep love story between the author character and his late wife interleaved with lots of cinematically creepy scenes played out at ordinary places in upscale suburbia: a home-improvement store, restaurants, a Victorian house on the river. The deranged fan adds a plausible, ripped-from-the-headlines element that Thrasher mines for tension and depth. Horror is a great genre for examining good and evil; demons need not be metaphoric and salvation can be a natural part of the plot. Some shifting back and forth in time can be confusing, particularly at the beginning before emotional momentum is established, and allusions to Pink Floyd are just sophomoric. But those are quibbles about an emotional wallop of a book. Thrasher just keeps getting better. <i>(May 28)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  RAG AND BONE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Also by Joe Clifford
  
  
  The Jay Porter Novels
  
  
  Lamentation
  
  
  December Boys
  
  
  Give Up the Dead
  
  
  Broken Ground
  
  
  Nonseries
  
  
  Wake the Undertaker
  
  
  The One That Got Away
  
  
  Memoir
  
  
  Junkie Love
  
  
  Anthologies
  
  
  Choice Cuts
  
  
  Trouble in the Heartland (editor)
  
  
  Just to Watch Them Die (editor)
  
  
  Hard Sentences (co-editor)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  RAG AND  
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  A JAY PORTER NOVEL
  
  
  JOE CLIFFORD
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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