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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
March 2012
On Sale: March 16, 2012
336 pages
ISBN: 0374534462
EAN: 9780374534462
Kindle: B00HTCPQY2
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Mystery
An exhilarating reinvention of the gothic novel, inspired by
the iconic characters
of our greatest myths and nightmares. The body of a young girl is found mangled and murdered in
the woods of Hemlock
Grove, Pennsylvania, in the shadow of the abandoned Godfrey
Steel mill. A manhunt
ensues—though the authorities aren’t sure if it’s a man they
should be looking for. Some suspect an escapee from the White Tower, a foreboding
biotech facility owned
by the Godfrey family—their personal fortune and the local
economy having moved on
from Pittsburgh steel—where, if rumors are true, biological
experiments of the most
unethical kind take place. Others turn to Peter Rumancek, a
Gypsy trailer-trash kid
who has told impressionable high school classmates that he’s
a werewolf. Or perhaps
it’s Roman, the son of the late JR Godfrey, who rules the
adolescent social scene
with the casual arrogance of a cold-blooded aristocrat, his
superior status
unquestioned despite his decidedly freakish sister, Shelley,
whose monstrous
medical conditions belie a sweet intelligence, and his
otherworldly control freak
of a mother, Olivia. At once a riveting mystery and a fascinating revelation of
the grotesque and the
darkness in us all, Hemlock Grove has the architecture and
energy to become a
classic in its own right—and Brian McGreevy the talent and
ambition to enthrall us
for years to come.
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