The Resource Ghost wall, Sarah Moss, (electronic resource)
Ghost wall, Sarah Moss, (electronic resource)
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The item Ghost wall, Sarah Moss, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library.
Resource Information
The item Ghost wall, Sarah Moss, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library.
- Summary
- In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie and her family are living as if they are ancient Britons, surviving by the tools and knowledge of the Iron Age. For two weeks, the length of her father's vacation, they join an anthropology course set to reenact life in simpler times. They are surrounded by forests of birch and rowan; they make stew from foraged roots and hunted rabbit. The students are fulfilling their coursework; Silvie's father is fulfilling his lifelong obsession. He has raised her on stories of early man, taken her to witness rare artifacts, recounted time and again their rituals and beliefs--particularly their sacrifices to the bog. Mixing with the students, Silvie begins to see, hear, and imagine another kind of life, one that might include going to university, traveling beyond England, choosing her own clothes and food, speaking her mind. The ancient Britons built ghost walls to ward off enemy invaders, rude barricades of stakes topped with ancestral skulls. When the group builds one of their own, they find a spiritual connection to the past. What comes next but human sacrifice?
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Note
-
- Available to Vancouver Residents only
- Residents of other municipalities should check their local libraries
- Isbn
- 9780374719555
- Label
- Ghost wall
- Title
- Ghost wall
- Statement of responsibility
- Sarah Moss
- Subject
-
- Historical reenactments -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Northumberland (England) -- Fiction
- Electronic books
- Forests and forestry -- Fiction
- Teenage girls -- Fiction
- Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
- Novellas
- Gothic fiction
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Human sacrifice -- Fiction
- Abusive men -- Fiction
- Feminist fiction
- Iron age -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie and her family are living as if they are ancient Britons, surviving by the tools and knowledge of the Iron Age. For two weeks, the length of her father's vacation, they join an anthropology course set to reenact life in simpler times. They are surrounded by forests of birch and rowan; they make stew from foraged roots and hunted rabbit. The students are fulfilling their coursework; Silvie's father is fulfilling his lifelong obsession. He has raised her on stories of early man, taken her to witness rare artifacts, recounted time and again their rituals and beliefs--particularly their sacrifices to the bog. Mixing with the students, Silvie begins to see, hear, and imagine another kind of life, one that might include going to university, traveling beyond England, choosing her own clothes and food, speaking her mind. The ancient Britons built ghost walls to ward off enemy invaders, rude barricades of stakes topped with ancestral skulls. When the group builds one of their own, they find a spiritual connection to the past. What comes next but human sacrifice?
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Moss, Sarah
- Dewey number
- 823/.92
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR6113.O88
- LC item number
- G48 2019
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Teenage girls
- Fathers and daughters
- Abusive men
- Historical reenactments
- Iron age
- Human sacrifice
- Forests and forestry
- Interpersonal relations
- Female friendship
- Northumberland (England)
- Label
- Ghost wall, Sarah Moss, (electronic resource)
- Note
-
- Available to Vancouver Residents only
- Residents of other municipalities should check their local libraries
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780374719555
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 4927398C-8B3F-447E-96B8-A2210DED973A
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1080655175
- Label
- Ghost wall, Sarah Moss, (electronic resource)
- Note
-
- Available to Vancouver Residents only
- Residents of other municipalities should check their local libraries
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780374719555
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 4927398C-8B3F-447E-96B8-A2210DED973A
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1080655175
Subject
- Abusive men -- Fiction
- Electronic books
- Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- Feminist fiction
- Forests and forestry -- Fiction
- Gothic fiction
- Historical reenactments -- Fiction
- Human sacrifice -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Iron age -- Fiction
- Northumberland (England) -- Fiction
- Novellas
- Psychological fiction
- Teenage girls -- Fiction
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