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Автор: MacDonald JoshНазвание: The Mystery PlayISBN: 9781772012163 Издательство: TalonbooksКлассификация:
ISBN-10: 1772012165
Обложка/Формат: Paperback Страницы: 80 Вес: 0.14 кг. Дата издания: 30.10.2018 Язык: English Размер: 213 x 137 x 10 Поставляется из: США Описание: The Mystery Play is a detective story, a ghost story, and a memory play: a theatrical blending of Wit and The Woman In Black. Though it is fully self-contained, The Mystery Play is also the second in a trilogy about SISTER VIVIAN SALTER, a flinty, fifty-ish Catholic nun, forced into the role of amateur sleuth. Each story in her trilogy was penned by a different playwright, and each was commissioned by Ships Company Theatre in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. In The Mystery Play, Salter recounts her late-stage struggles with her own beliefs, while also detailing her fathers descent into Alzheimers. George (70s) is becoming prone to semi-violent outbursts, to speaking with phantoms in the middle of the night, and to eerie sleepwalking--all of which leave Salter exhausted, and questioning the existence of Gods love. Then, into the adjoining suite next door moves a young schoolteacher, JENNIFER CRAIG (20s), and her newlywed husband, PETER (20s). From Salters vantage, this couple-next-door seems perfect, and very much in love... until they dont. By creeping attrition, Salter begins to fear for the safety of Jennifer Craig, beyond the adjoining wall. The nun comes to suspect that terrible spousal abuse is taking place next door, and, despite herself, she gets drawn, once more, into mystery. But this time, Salter must question her entire relationship with mystery--moving beyond empirical clues into Mysteries of Faith that imply the supernatural. For buried in the architectural history of Salters home, and beginning again to overtake the lives of everyone beneath its roof, is a reanimating ghost story... Ultimately, The Mystery Play becomes a supernatural chiller of rattling cupboards, overnight seances, and spectral possessions. Come the storys climax, its discovered that George Salters eroding memory also contains the memories of a previous life... making him the ultimate key to the solving of old ghosts. At the finale, then, Salters father finds his moment of full, mindful deliverance, and Salter finds her new definition for mystery--one derived from the Mystery Plays of her dwindling faith--where the word can also mean a miracle beyond all logic.
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