Ghosts
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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There are ghosts inhabiting “Sound of Falling” — you just need to know where to look for them.
From Los Angeles Times
George Saunders has published five collections of influential and critically lauded short stories, but in 2017 he found a wider readership with “Lincoln in the Bardo,” a novel that inhabits the impressions of ghosts witnessing the passage through the afterlife of Abraham Lincoln’s dead son, Willie.
Boone’s stubbornness, and the angry meddling of these ghosts arouses a crisis in Jill, and the story switches between her memories of life, her reconsiderations of the idea of deathbed absolution and the interruptions of a bizarrerie—if, for Mr. Saunders, a rather tame one—of other phantoms.
But as Julian Sancton tells us in his splendid “Neptune’s Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire,” it is estimated that there was “as much as eight tons’ worth of gold on board, more than had ever sailed in a single Spanish ship,” and “more than a million silver coins,” in addition to precious-metal contraband and—another estimate—600 or so people.
The space is dear to Wicks: it’s where her husband proposed, but “Ghosts in the Machine” pulls from more painful memories in her life.
From Los Angeles Times
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