The author of The War Between the Tates and the Pulitzer prize-winning
Foreign Affairs now brings her irresistible wit to the ghost story.
In nine spooky tales, Alison Lurie writes of women haunted by ghosts
both literal and metaphorical: A woman about to marry Mr. Right is
visited by the spirit of his first wife; a dead fiancé haunts a foreign
service officer every time she has an intimate moment with another man;
the ghost of a girl in a Halloween costume disconcerts the perfect
housewife. A secretary on a diet begins to see obese people everywhere
she looks; a self-conscious poet is shadowed by her intrusive
doppelganger; and a capricious, malevolent spirit seems to have
inhabited an acquisitive matron's prized piece of furniture.
Delightfully strange and beautifully told, these nine tales show Alison
Lurie at her luminous best.