Título: 77 Shadow Street : A Novel
Autor: Dean Koontz
Sinopse: The Pendleton stands on the summit of Shadow Hill at the highest point of an old heartland city, a Gilded Age palace built in the late 1800s as a tycoon's dream home. Almost from the beginning, its grandeur has been scarred by episodes of madness, suicide, mass murder, and whispers of things far worse. But since its rechristening in the 1970s as a luxury apartment building, the Pendleton has been at peace. For its fortunate residents - among them a successful songwriter and her young son, a disgraced ex-senator, a widowed attorney, and a driven money manager - the Pendleton's magnificent quarters are a sanctuary, its dark past all but forgotten. But now inexplicable shadows caper across walls, security cameras relay impossible images, phantom voices mutter in strange tongues not-quite-human figures lurk in the basement, elevators plunge into unknown depths. With each passing hour, a terrifying certainty grows: Whatever drove the Pendleton's past occupants to their unspeakable fates is at work again. Soon, all those within its boundaries will be engulfed by a dark tide from which few have escaped. Dean Koontz transcends all expectations as he takes readers on a gripping journey to a place where nightmare visions become real - and where a group of singular individuals hold the key to humanity's destiny. Welcome to 77 Shadow Street. Enter the world of the Pendleton: The original owner became a recluse - and was rumored to be more than half mad - after his wife and two children were kidnapped in 1896 and never found. The second owner suffered a worse tragedy in 1935, when his house manager murdered him, his family, and the entire live-in staff.... Craftsmen and laborers working on renovations disappear or go mad.... For years, the Pendleton is a happy place, until a bad turn comes again.... Voices in unknown languages are heard in deserted rooms, everywhere and nowhere.... Disturbing shadows move along walls but have no source.... Images on security monitors show strange places that exist nowhere in the building or its grounds.... A young boy talks of an imaginary playmate - who turns out to be terrifyingly real.... A figure like a man but clearly inhuman is glimpsed in the courtyard gardens at night and in other locales, perhaps a hoaxer of some kind, seemingly oblivious of those who see it - until it suddenly takes an interest in one of them....
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “77 Shadow Street : A Novel”, de Dean Koontz, publicado pela editora Bantam Books, em 2011 e com 556 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Bantam Books
Páginas: 556
Ano: 2011
Edição:
Linguagem: inglês
ISBN: 0553841211
ISBN13: 9780553841213
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Bantam Books costumam transportar o leitor para narrativas densas e envolventes, onde o suspense, o mistério e o drama humano se entrelaçam em tramas que exploram conflitos pessoais e sociais. A experiência de leitura varia entre histórias de investigação policial, espionagem, dramas familiares e aventuras em cenários urbanos ou históricos, com personagens que enfrentam dilemas morais e ameaças concretas. O tom oscila entre o tenso e o introspectivo, com ritmo que pode ser acelerado em cenas de ação ou mais reflexivo em momentos de revelação. O catálogo revela um equilíbrio entre histórias mais narrativas e outras com abordagem mais psicológica e investigativa, mostrando certa diversidade dentro de um universo predominantemente adulto e adulto jovem.
