Her Fearful Symmetry
The author of “The Time Traveler’s Wife” returns with the haunted romance, Her Fearful Symmetry. “More than a month before Halloween, the most sophisticated horror stories are already crawling out of the ground. You think you’re safe over there in the primly maintained Literary Fiction section of the cemetery, peering across the rusty gate at Stephen King’s “Under the Dome” (Nov. 10), Anne Rice’s “Angel Time” (Oct. 27) and even a sequel to “Dracula” written by — please, no! — Bram Stoker’s great-grandnephew (Oct. 13),” reports Ron Charles for the Washington Post.
“The latest to join this infernal group comes from Audrey Niffenegger, author of the phenomenally popular “Time Traveler’s Wife,” which means her new one has a good chance of haunting the bestseller list, too,” reports Charles. “As naturally as she used elements of science fiction in the past, she borrows the tropes of Victorian Gothic here for a story that seems, at first, more interested in whimsy than terror,” Charles continues. “Her Fearful Symmetry doesn’t reveal its spectral elements for more than 60 pages, and when the first ghost does make an appearance, ‘gaining opacity gradually,’ the scene is strangely poignant and witty, like a visitation from Noël Coward’s ‘Blithe Spirit’ – But Niffenegger manages to breathe life into these dead cliches, noting at one point that the soul leaves the body ‘slippery like an avocado stone popping out.’”
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