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Nine stories deal with a woman who meets the ghost of her fiance's first wife, apparitions of obesity, the ghost of a trick-or-treater, a poet shadowed by her double, and a ghost who only appears when his former fiancee is having an intimate moment with another man
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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 fiance 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.
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