NOS4A2

Published Sept. 5, 2013 by HarperCollins.

ISBN:
978-0-06-220057-0
Copied ISBN!

View on OpenLibrary

4 stars (1 review)

Victoria McQueen has an uncanny knack for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. When she rides her bicycle over the rickety old covered bridge in the woods near her house, she always emerges in the places she needs to be.

Charles Talent Manx has a gift of his own. He likes to take children for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the vanity plate NOS4A2. In the Wraith, he and his innocent guests can slip out of the everyday world and onto hidden roads that lead to an astonishing playground of amusements he calls Christmasland. The journey across the highway of Charlie's twisted imagination transforms his precious passengers, leaving them as terrifying and unstoppable as their benefactor.

Then comes the day when Vic goes looking for trouble...and finds her way to Charlie. That was a lifetime ago. Now, the only kid ever to …

4 editions

Review of 'NOS4A2' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Ich habe das ohne Vorinformation gelesen und daher erst gedacht, es ist ein Vampirroman, das ist aber nicht der Fall, zumindest nicht im klassischen Sinn. Kann man gut weglesen und das Konzept von mentalen Landschaften ist interessant und schön plastisch geschrieben. Mit ein paar weniger Klischees wäre es noch besser gewesen.