CoffinsMacmillan, 2004 - Počet stran: 320 THE FROZEN BABY Physician Davis Bentwood, making a lengthy housecall at the Coffin family mansion on the coast of Maine, finds the newborn grandson of Captain Cash Coffin, stiff and cold as a block of ice, in a cradle not ten feet from a roaring fire. Young Davis can find no medical explanation for the baby's death. After a mysterious accident at the family shipyard caused the simultaneous death of his twin sons, Cash Coffin locked himself in study, and threatened to shoot anyone who approached. Cash's youngest son, the dwarf Jebediah, has asked his old friend Davis to try to help the old man. Another Coffin son, an experienced ship's master, dies at sea in a freak accident that defies a natural explanation. And on a moonless night, Davis Bentwood is awakened by an eerie light that leads him to the Coffin family's darkest secret. Cash Coffin traded in slaves. Davis Bentwood's blood-chilling discovery holds the key to the family's destruction. Can the ancient evil being visited upon the Coffins be stopped? "Philbrick does an admirable job in capturing the flavor of the times, and it's enjoyable to see such historical figures as Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Cady Stanton pop up seamlessly in the narrative. Like the best works of Poe, Coffins has no happy ending. It's an old-fashioned morality tale, with the children paying for the sins of the father."--The Bangor News "Mesmerizingly suspenseful. Compelling: an intriguing and unusual story."--Kirkus Reviews on Rodman Philbrick's Freak the Mighty |
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