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''For other uses of the word [[Succubus]], see [[Succubus (disambiguation)]].'' | ''For other uses of the word [[Succubus]], see [[Succubus (disambiguation)]].'' | ||
'''The Gate of Air''' is a novel written by James Buchan. In this work the character Jean Lampard is a Succubus. | |||
'''The Gate of Air''' is a novel written by James Buchan. | |||
== Overview == | |||
== | |||
*Title: The Gate of Air | *Title: The Gate of Air | ||
*Author: James Buchan | *Author: James Buchan | ||
*Published By: Quercus Publishing Plc | |||
*Length: 224 Pages | |||
*Format: Hardcover | *Format: Hardcover | ||
*ISBN-10: 184724467X | *ISBN-10: 184724467X | ||
*ISBN-13: 978-1847244673 | *ISBN-13: 978-1847244673 | ||
* | *Publishing Date: September 4, 2008 | ||
== Plot Summary == | |||
When mysterious loner Jim Smith moves into remote Paradise Farmhouse, he experiences some strange but wonderful midnight visits from an ethereal woman. He soon discovers that this dream-like figure is the incarnation of a 1960s beauty, immortalized in a famous nude portrait that belongs to his neighbour. Intrigued, Jim abandons his customary aloofness to find out more, and accepts a dinner invitation from his landlords - a billionaire-thug and his beautiful but mistreated wife.The dinner party - a chance for a brilliantly satirical sketch of the braying upper class hunting set - is disastrous and, soon after, Jim's pastoral idyll disintegrates. His lambs die, cows give no milk, bees swarm. Sensing his ghostly lover has turned malevolent, Jim knows he must placate her before the circle of decay reaches those he loves - even if that means making the ultimate sacrifice. Both unsettling ghost story and intense love story, "The Gate of Air" is by turns poetic, learned, satirical and allegorical. This is a beautifully crafted novel about love and loneliness, life and death, and the indelible traces we leave behind us when we die. | |||
== Book Review == | == Book Review == | ||
''The following review can be found at the independent.co.uk link in the External Links Below:'' | |||
*The Gate of Air, by James Buchan | *The Gate of Air, by James Buchan | ||
*Spooky or what? Ask the succubus that's haunting Paradise Farm | *Spooky or what? Ask the succubus that's haunting Paradise Farm | ||
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I am a devoted admirer of Buchan's writing, but this book reads like an exercise in the spooky, without conviction or respect for the mysterious. The wonderful, tragically short-lived Shirley Jackson was comfortable with ghosts because she believed in them and gave them and the people they haunted believable identifies. A pall of disbelief is draped over The Gate of Air, and it is of Buchan's own making. His generous heart, so evident in his novel A Good Place To Die, simply isn't in it. | I am a devoted admirer of Buchan's writing, but this book reads like an exercise in the spooky, without conviction or respect for the mysterious. The wonderful, tragically short-lived Shirley Jackson was comfortable with ghosts because she believed in them and gave them and the people they haunted believable identifies. A pall of disbelief is draped over The Gate of Air, and it is of Buchan's own making. His generous heart, so evident in his novel A Good Place To Die, simply isn't in it. | ||
== External Links == | == External Links == | ||
*[http://www.amazon. | *[http://www.amazon.com/Gate-Air-Ghost-Story/dp/184724467X This work in Hardcover Format at Amazon.com] | ||
*[http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-gate-of-air-by-james-buchan-954345.html Book Review at the Independent.co.uk website referenced above] | *[http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-gate-of-air-by-james-buchan-954345.html Book Review at the Independent.co.uk website referenced above] | ||
*[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/10/05/bobuc105.xml Book Review at Telegraph.co.uk website] | *[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/10/05/bobuc105.xml Book Review at Telegraph.co.uk website] | ||
*[http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/james-buchan/gate-of-air.htm Gate of the Air at Fantasticfiction.co.uk] | *[http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/james-buchan/gate-of-air.htm Gate of the Air at Fantasticfiction.co.uk] | ||