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| Original Title: | The Servants |
| ISBN: | 0979505402 (ISBN13: 9780979505409) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (2008), British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (2008) |
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| Title | : | The Servants |
| Author | : | Michael Marshall Smith |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Trade Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 224 pages |
| Published | : | August 2007 by Earthling Publications |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Horror. Young Adult. Paranormal. Ghosts |
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For young Mark, the world has turned as bleak and gray as the Brighton winter. Separated from his real father and home in London, he's come to live with his mother and her new husband in an old house near the sea. He spends his days alone, trying to master the skateboard, while other boys his age are in school. He hates the unwanted stepfather who barged into Mark's life to rob him of joy. Worst of all, his once-vibrant mother has grown listless and weary, no longer interested in anything beyond her sitting room.
But on a damp and chilly evening, an accident carries Mark into the basement flat of the old woman who lives at the bottom of his stepfather's house. She offers tea, cakes, and sympathy . . . and the key to a secret, bygone world. Mark becomes caught up in the frenetic bustle of the human machinery that once ran a home, and drawn ever deeper into a lost realm of spirits and memory. Here below the suffocating truths, beneath the pain and unhappiness, he finds an escape, and quite possibly a way to change everything.
A richly evocative, poignantly beautiful modern-day ghost story, The Servants marks the triumphant return of Michael Marshall Smith—the first novel in a decade from the multiple award-winning author of Spares.
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Ratings: 3.33 From 862 Users | 124 ReviewsWrite-Up Containing Books The Servants
I was ultimately disappointed with this book. The gap between expectation from the back cover synopsis and the reality of the contents ended up being larger than I anticipated.The depth of the scenery and textures - although beautifully written - felt more developed than the characters, which made it harder to connect with any one of them. The story in and of itself was not terrible, but it was not what I was hoping for when I picked up this book. I found myself struggling to continue, evenDidn't realise it was young adult genre
I loved this book. It was wonderful. Marshal-Smith has a wonderful way of throwing all your expectations into his books with each line you read then turning those ideas on their heads. I will say i didn't enjoy it as much as a couple of his other novels but it was engaged thoroughly until the end. I liked how just because bad stuff happened in the book, there wasn't a magical resolution to the real problems, despite the servants predicament and the main characters visiting them. I enjoyed the
Absolutely loved this brilliant lovely book. I felt I was right in the house and at the beach when he described it.A very touching story. I highly recommend this book. Michael Marshall Smith is an exceptional author.
"If you live long enough, everything happens." (Servants, Prologue)I finished Servants by M. M. Smith last night. It turned out to be one of those books I couldn't actually put down, which is a bit strange considering I usually dislike novels were the main character is a kid or a teenager. Stories were the main characters are kids are usually hard to write and hard to digest I think. But I put down all the other books I'm reading and read through this one fast. It was hard to put down.I started
Michael Marshall Smith is a dark, dark author. Most of his works are nihilistic and hopeless, even when they have a happy ending, so it was a bit of a shock to read a comment about The Servants describing it as a childrens book. Having finished it, I wouldnt necessarily agree, if only because of a few choice pieces of language (the kind that would get it rated R f it were a movie, or labeled with a Parental Advisory sticker if it were a CD), but I do think that there is a brilliant presentation
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