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Grasshopper

By Barbara Vine

By Barbara Vine

By Barbara Vine

By Barbara Vine

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Paperback $14.95

Jun 11, 2002 | ISBN 9780375726507

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Dec 18, 2007 | ISBN 9780307426093

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    About Grasshopper

    “They have sent me here because of what happened on the pylon.”
    When Clodagh Brown writes these words at the age of nineteen, she believes that she is leaving behind the traumatic events of her youth. But Clodagh soon learns that you can never entirely escape your past.

    In the aftermath of the incident on the pylon–one of the great electrified structures that dot the English countryside like so many gargantuan grasshoppers–Clodagh goes off to university, moves into a basement flat arranged by her unsympathetic family, and finds freedom trekking across London’s rooftops with a gang of neighborhood misfits. As she begins a thrilling relationship with a fellow climber, however, both Clodagh and the reader are haunted by the memory of the pylon and of the terrible thing that happened there–and by the eerie sense that another tragedy is just a footfall away.

    About Grasshopper

    “They have sent me here because of what happened on the pylon.”
    When Clodagh Brown writes these words at the age of nineteen, she believes that she is leaving behind the traumatic events of her youth. But Clodagh soon learns that you can never entirely escape your past.

    In the aftermath of the incident on the pylon–one of the great electrified structures that dot the English countryside like so many gargantuan grasshoppers–Clodagh goes off to university, moves into a basement flat arranged by her unsympathetic family, and finds freedom trekking across London’s rooftops with a gang of neighborhood misfits. As she begins a thrilling relationship with a fellow climber, however, both Clodagh and the reader are haunted by the memory of the pylon and of the terrible thing that happened there–and by the eerie sense that another tragedy is just a footfall away.

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    Also by Barbara Vine

    The Chimney Sweeper's Boy
    The Brimstone Wedding
    The Birthday Present
    The Minotaur
    The Blood Doctor
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    Also by Barbara Vine

    The Chimney Sweeper's Boy
    The Brimstone Wedding
    The Birthday Present
    The Minotaur
    The Blood Doctor
    See all books by Barbara Vine

    About Barbara Vine

    Barbara Vine is the author of such acclaimed novels as A Dark-Adapted Eye, Anna’s Book, Grasshopper, and The Blood Doctor. She has won many awards for literary accomplishment, including three Edgar Awards and four Gold Daggers.

    About Barbara Vine

    Barbara Vine is the author of such acclaimed novels as A Dark-Adapted Eye, Anna’s Book, Grasshopper, and The Blood Doctor. She has won many awards for literary accomplishment, including three Edgar Awards and four Gold Daggers.

    Product Details

    Category: Suspense & Thriller

    Paperback | $14.95
    Published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
    Jun 11, 2002 | 400 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375726507

    Category: Suspense & Thriller

    Ebook | $5.99
    Published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
    Dec 18, 2007 | 400 Pages | ISBN 9780307426093

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    Praise

    “Mesmerizing. . . . A teasing narrative of fatal obsession.”–Orlando Sentinel

    “The Vine novels are sublime works of psychological suspense…Grasshopper is as skillful as anything this wonderful writer has done."–The Seattle Times

    "A typically elegant, and typically elegiac, turn from the woman with two award-winning names. And one superlative voice."–Fort Worth Star Telegram

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