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Title	:	Sleep, Pale Sister
Author	:	Joanne Harris
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 396 pages
Published	:	August 30th 2005 by William Morrow Paperbacks (first published 1994)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Gothic. Horror

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Before the sweet delight of Chocolat, before the heady concoction that is Blackberry Wine, and before the tart pleasures of Five Quarters of the Orange, bestselling author Joanne Harris wrote Sleep, Pale Sister -- a gothic tourde-force that recalls the powerfully dark sensibility of her novel Holy Fools. Originally published in 1994 -- and never before available in the United States -- Sleep, Pale Sister is a hypnotically atmospheric story set in nineteenth century London. When puritanical artist Henry Chester sees delicate child beauty Effie, he makes her his favorite model and, before long, his bride. But Henry, volatile and repressed, is in love with an ideal. Passive, docile, and asexual, the woman he projects onto Effie is far from the woman she really is. And when Effie begins to discover the murderous depths of Henry's hypocrisy, her latent passion will rise to the surface. Sleep, Pale Sister combines the ethereal beauty of a Pre-Raphaelite painting with a chilling high gothic tale and is a testament to Harris's brimming cornucopia of talents. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

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Original Title:	Sleep, Pale Sister (P.S.)
ISBN:	0060787112 (ISBN13: 9780060787110)
Edition Language:	English

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Joanne Harris, you never fail to mesmerize me. Just a little before reading this, I read Gentlemen and Players, and it instantly proved to me the beauty and genius of her writing. She has a true talent of capturing ones mind, twisting ones heart, and using her word-play to prove her skill and delicacy. I just realized how annoying and sappy that sounded...Simply put, she has made her way into a position as one of my favorite writers, capable of the gothic and the whimsicle, and one of the most



This gothic thriller kept me turning the pages. In Victorian England, a wealthy gentleman and moderately talented artist spots a little girl and makes her the model for a series of sentimental paintings, helping support her family in the process. Eventually he marries her, but he sees her more as a symbol of childlike purity than a warm blooded woman, and as a man of his times, wants to "protect" this weak, fragile vessel from harm (even taking a walk in the garden is considered too risky if he

This book fit squarely into my super-love category. Mysterious, sensual, provocative, magical. On the cover a reviewer calls this book "a hauntingly evocative laudanum-dream of a novel" and I must say I agree completely. I have not read any of Ms. Harris's other books and I hesitate to, because this book seems to be a departure from her other type of work...and since I LOVE this book I imagine her other work might not work for me as well. But who knows? I might pick up Blackberry Wine. But I

not liking this very much...but fairly determined to finish it anyway.Update - the story is getting a bit better and I will finish it, but the characters are sort of flat and I don't really care one way or the other what happens to them.

On the plus side, it's very gothic. Every main character is not only damaged, but intent on damaging the others. There's a perverted artist, a heart of stone prostitute, a lecherous user of women, and the misused, misunderstood, emotionally stunted young woman they all revolve around. That the story is told by each of those characters in a nearly consecutive format makes it all fit together a little too neatly. There's no mystery as to who will do what to whom next, by the middle of the book you

This was actually the first of Joanne Harris' books that I've read, which strikes me as odd since I consider myself a fan. But I realized that that "fan" status is based solely on the viewing of the movie Chocolat (Johnny Depp, Juliette Binoche) because the story was so wonderful. But that, of course, is absurd, because movies and their books are rarely more than representative of one another.Having said that, I had high hopes that stayed with me through about the first half of this book, at