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Madeleine's Ghost Paperback | Pages: 356 pages
Rating: 3.82 | 607 Users | 74 Reviews

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Original Title: Madeleine's Ghost
ISBN: 0385316364 (ISBN13: 9780385316361)
Edition Language: English
Literary Awards: Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Best First Novel (1995)

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Brooklyn needs a saint. Ned Conti needs a stipend. So the struggling young historian agrees to trace the mysterious past of a Brooklyn nun for evidence of miracles. Trapped in a neighborhood of cheap rents and failed promise, in a rent-controlled apartment suddenly, inexplicably seized by a beautiful and angry ghost, Ned's only refuge is the F train to Manhattan's East Village bars, where he and his friends drown their sorrows in drink....

But Ned is about to heed another call, the siren song of New Orleans, where the history of countless lost souls seems to rise from the steaming streets--and where, ten years before, he ended a brief, passionate affair with a woman whose memory has haunted him ever since. Here, in a city of spirits, Ned will embrace a dead saint and a living sinner...as a beautiful ghost offers him her desire. And his destiny....

Set amid the sleepless energy and seething passion of New York and New Orleans, Madeleine's Ghost is a spellbinding novel of lost love, history, and desire--a work of startling originality that is at once exquisitely written and compulsively readable.

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Title:Madeleine's Ghost
Author:Robert Girardi
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 356 pages
Published:June 1st 1996 by Delta (first published July 1st 1995)
Categories:Fiction. Mystery. Fantasy. Paranormal. Ghosts. Historical. Historical Fiction

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I read this book many years ago and picked it off my shelf again recently during the library shut down. I liked it a lot then, and I still like it now. You dont often come across a cynical yet romantic portrayal of Catholicism in the modern world, and one with ghosts, to boot! The fairy tale ending is a bit too much, but Girardi was young when he wrote it. It would be a sin to punish the young for believing in happy ever after.

It took me some time to get into this book (another one about ghosts after just reading "The Witching Hour" mostly because I was taking a short vacation to New Orleans) which is unusual for me. I don't put books down once I have started reading them, but I was encouraged by three enthusiastic readers of this book that it really was very, very good. I continued reading and can say that, although slow to start, it is an excellent book. Thoroughly enjoyed it!

I had to force myself to finish this book. It really dragged for me. The story was fragmented and slowly developed. The main characters were unsympathetic. So why did I give it 3 stars? The descriptions of New Orleans and Brooklyn were spot on and beautifully done. I also liked the idea behind the story. It was intriguing. The book could have used a good editor though. It was just okay. If you love New Orleans or New York, you might want to give this book a try.

3.5 stars - There's much to like in this New York/New Orleans ghost story, but it's a bit too ambitious at times. Although he goes a little overboard in his descriptions of Brooklyn and New Orleans, Girardi shows in his debut novel that he's clearly a talented writer. I hope to read some of his work. Thanks to my friend Anne for recommending (and loaning) the book to me.

Wow! This author is so knowledgeable, particularly about NYC and New Orleans, as well as Catholicism and the Creole and Cajun cultures. His descriptions of the two cities are extensive, so much so that I got a little bogged down because I'm so unfamiliar with them; but also my interest is piqued particularly for New Orleans and its rich cultural heritage. I picked the book rather randomly because it's a ghost story, but the story was really more about the protagonist, his loves and his lives in

just very boring, DNF, stopped at about 130 pages

I'm not sure how I felt about this one. I'm giving it a 2, but I think parts of it were a 3 or 3.5, so maybe it's more of a 2.5-2.75.Overall, I think Robert is a very good writer and paints a vivid picture of his characters and their lives. I just don't know how I felt towards the main character though; sometimes I kind of got him, but other times he turned me off. I didn't really understand where he was coming from and why he seemed so content to let his life pass him by. Not that I cared he