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Unbridled Books
April 2011
On Sale: April 19, 2011
272 pages
ISBN: 1609530403
EAN: 9781609530402
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Fiction
Timothy Schaffert has created his most memorable character
yet in Essie, an octogenarian obituary writer for her family
s small town newspaper. When a young country girl is
reported to be missing, perhaps whisked away by an itinerant
aerial photographer, Essie stumbles onto the story of her
life. Or, it all could be simply a hoax, or a delusion, the
child and child-thief invented from the desperate
imagination of a lonely, lovelorn woman. Either way, the
story of the girl reaches far and wide, igniting
controversy, attracting curiosity-seekers and cult
worshippers from all over the country to this dying rural
town. And then it is revealed that the long awaited final
book of an infamous series of ya gothic novels is being
secretly printed on the newspaper s presses. The Coffins of
Little Hope tells a feisty, energetic story of characters
caught in the intricately woven webs of myth, legend and
deception even as Schaffert explores with his typical
exquisite care and sharp eye the fragility of childhood, the
strength of family, the powerful rumor mills of rural
America, and the sometimes dramatic effects of pop culture
on the way we shape our world.
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